Entamoeba histolytica: sequence conservation of the Gal/GalNAc lectin from clinical isolates.

abstract：:This article has been withdrawn at the request of the author(s) and/or editor. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy. ...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： He GZ

更新日期：2012-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Typically, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short positive charged peptides serving a key role in innate immunity as well as antimicrobial activity. Discovering novel therapeutic agents is considered as an undeniable demand due to increasing microbial species with antibiotic resistance. In this direction, the unique ...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Zahedifard F,Lee H,No JH,Salimi M,Seyed N,Asoodeh A,Rafati S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical properties of the enzyme responsible for nematode "activated L-serine sulphydrase" activity (L-cysteine + R-SH----cysteine thioether + H2S) have been investigated using primarily the gastro-intestinal nematodes Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and Haemonchus contortus. The activated L-serine sulphydrase en...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Walker J,Barrett J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma musculi is a hemoflagellate parasite producing a characteristic course of infection in the mouse, terminating in elimination of the parasite from the vascular system with permanent immunity to reinfection. While this elimination is known to require functional T lymphocytes, the role of these cells has rema...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： House RV,Dean JH

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tapeworms are pervasive and globally distributed parasites that infect millions of humans and livestock every year, and are the causative agents of two of the 17 neglected tropical diseases prioritized by the World Health Organization. Studies of tapeworm biology and pathology are often encumbered by the complex life ...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Rozario T,Newmark PA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against infective third-stage larvae (L3) of Brugia pahangi were generated from mice immunized with L3 antigens. The monoclonal antibodies were L3 stage-specific or stage-nonspecific. A BpG1 monoclonal antibody (IgG1 subclass) showing L3 stage-specificity was examined in detail. BpG1 recognized t...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Oikawa Y,Ikeda T,Horii Y,Fujita K,Tsukidate S

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The swimming behavior of Poecilia vivipara was evaluated using an image analysis system comparing laboratory-reared uninfected fish before and after experimental infection with different intensities of cercariae of the trematode Acanthocollaritrema umbilicatum. Two experiments were performed, each with 30 fish which w...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Santos EG,Cunha RA,Santos CP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species of the genus Leishmania are causative agents of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Pakistan. This study aimed to determine phylogenetic placement of Leishmania species causing cutaneous leishmaniasis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan (34 Leishmania tropica, 3 Leishmania infantum), in-relation to species...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Khan NH,Messenger LA,Wahid S,Sutherland CJ

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were infected with 8- or 25-infective worms of advanced third stage Gnathostoma spinigerum larvae (L3) which were obtained from natural infected eels. On day 14, 60 and 200 post infections (PI), spleen cells of infected mice were tested for lymphoproliferative responses in vitro against the mitogen and specific L...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Saksirisampant W,Thaisom S,Ratanavararak M,Thanomsub BW

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using nucleotide variation in the first internal transcribed spacer of nuclear ribosomal DNA, five different genotypes (designated G1-G5) have been identified and the preponderance of genotype G1 in humans and of genotype G3 in pigs led to the proposal that parasites bearing the two genotypes have an affinity for a pa...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Peng W,Yuan K,Peng G,Qiu L,Dai Z,Yuan F,Hu Y,Hu N

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only a few drugs are available for chemotherapy of African trypanosomiasis and there is an urgent need for the development of new anti-trypanosomal agents. In this study, the anti-helminthic drug niclosamide was tested for its trypanocidal activity in vitro using culture-adapted bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Merschjohann K,Steverding D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest obstacle impeding the development of an effective malaria vaccine is the incomplete understanding of how the immune response is regulated during infection. B-1a cells, a poorly understood subcategory of B lymphocytes, produce nonpathologic autoantibodies of low affinity which have been shown to have distin...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Yoder BJ,Goodrum KJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cysteine-rich C-terminal region of the merozoite surface protein-1, MSP-119, of Plasmodium falciparum has been the most promising vaccine target antigen to date, based on protective immunization studies with recombinant proteins in mice and monkey models. To be further developed as a vaccine candidate, it is essen...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Lalitha PV,Malhotra P,Chattopadhyay R,Chauhan VS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnosis and determining the infective stage are critical for effective therapy of toxoplasmosis. Owing to the progress in biotechnology, commonly used native, non-standardized diagnostic antigens should be replaced by genetically engineered antigens. The recombinant proteins are also promising components of su...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Grzybowski MM,Dziadek B,Dziadek J,Gatkowska J,Dzitko K,Długońska H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus, which in this disease the metacestode develop in visceral organs especially liver and lungs. The disease is present worldwide and affects humans as well as herbivores including cattle, sheep, camels, horses and others. Benzimidazole c...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Ahmadnia S,Moazeni M,Mohammadi-Samani S,Oryan A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axenic culture of Leishmania is generally performed in rich, serum-supplemented media which sustain robust growth over multiple passages. The use of such undefined media, however, obscures proteomic analyses and confounds the study of metabolism. We have established a simple, defined culture medium that supports the s...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Nayak A,Akpunarlieva S,Barrett M,Burchmore R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isocitrate lyase (EC 4.1.3.1) from mixed larval populations of Caenorhabditis elegans was stabilized in crude extracts by centrifugation over a 0.2-0.6 M sucrose gradient for 2.5 hr in a vertical rotor (VTi 50) at 210,000g. The peak fractions from this sucrose gradient showed a half-life of 33 hr at 30 C and 225 hr at...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Jameel S,McFadden BA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goal of the present study was to characterise the course of infection and immunological responses developed by Leishmania infantum infected BALB/c mice. Parasite load was determined by Real-time TaqMan PCR while cytokine and Immunoglobulin G (IgG) production were assessed by ELISA. Leishmania DNA was detected...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Rolão N,Cortes S,Gomes-Pereira S,Campino L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous lesions elicited in guinea pigs by primary and secondary feeding populations of the argasid tick, Ornithodorus tartakovskyi, were analyzed by light and electron microscopy. Small clusters of basophils appeared at primary bite sites within 24 hr of tick attachment, and by 72 hr constituted approximately 11% o...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： McLaren DJ,Worms MJ,Brown SJ,Askenase PW

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc-85, an 85-kDa surface glycoprotein specific for the trypomastigote stage of Trypanosoma cruzi, has been implicated in the invasion of host cells by the parasite. Radioactive palmitic acid was incorporated into Tc-85 immunoprecipitated from the culture medium with the H1A10 monoclonal antibody, suggesting that shedd...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Abuin G,Couto AS,de Lederkremer RM,Casal OL,Galli C,Colli W,Alves MJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic cross is a powerful tool for studying malaria genes contributing to drug resistance, parasite development, and pathogenesis. Cloning and identification of recombinant progeny (RP) is laborious and expensive, especially when a large proportion of progeny derived from self-fertilization are present in the unclon...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Qi Y,Zhu F,Li J,Fu Y,Pattaradilokrat S,Hong L,Liu S,Huang F,Xu W,Su XZ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) caused by Leishmania aethiopica is a public health and social problem with a sequel of severe and mutilating skin lesions. It is manifested in three forms: localized CL (LCL), mucosal CL (MCL) and diffuse CL (DCL). Unresponsiveness to sodium stibogluconate (Sb(V)) is common in Ethiopian CL...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Utaile M,Kassahun A,Abebe T,Hailu A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of cell surface characteristics of pathogenic and nonpathogenic promastigotes of Leishmania braziliensis, NR and LBY strains, respectively, was carried out by means of concanavalin A agglutination and labeling with concanavalin A-fluorescein isothiocyanate, concanavalin A-ferritin, and cationized f...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Ayesta C,Argüello C,Hernández AG

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of nanotechnology has generated new means of disease diagnosis and treatment. Infectious diseases, including leishmaniasis, malaria, etc., have benefited from the advent of new nanomaterials and/or nanodevices capable of detecting specific antigens and antibodies with high specificity and low cost. In ...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Barboza-Filho CG,Cabrera FC,Dos Santos RJ,De Saja Saez JA,Job AE

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with mannosidase or sialidase completely inhibited chemotactic responses of Caenorhabditis elegans wild type, C. elegans mutants CB1377 (daf-6)X and CB1379 (che-3)I, and Panagrellus redivivus to a source of attractants. Trypsin (EC3.4.21.4) caused a partial reduction in the level of chemoresponse. Normal che...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Jansson HB,Jeyaprakash A,Damon RA Jr,Zuckerman BM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia lamblia is the most commonly detected parasite in the intestinal tract of humans and other mammals causing giardiasis. Giardia presents several cytoskeletal structures with microtubules as major components such as the ventral adhesive disk, eight flagella axonemes, the median body and funis. Many drugs have al...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Mariante RM,Vancini RG,Melo AL,Benchimol M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to amelanotic melanoma cells was pH dependent; increased adherence was observed in the pH range of 6.1 to 6.8 and was greatest between pH 6.6 and 6.8 Ca2+ promoted cytoadherence, but at higher concentrations (40-50 mM) than is usually the case for cell-cell ...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Crandall I,Smith H,Sherman IW

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive small animal in vivo imaging is an essential tool in a broad variety of biomedical sciences and enables continuous monitoring of disease progression in order to develop and improve diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive measures. Imaging parasites non-invasively in live animals allows efficient parasite d...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Novobilský A,Höglund J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the Weybridge strain and a mixture of six laboratory and field strains of Eimeria maxima have been attenuated by selection for early maturation of oocysts during serial passage in chickens. The prepatent times of the resultant precocious lines produces after selection were reduced from approximately 120 hr to les...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： McDonald V,Shirley MW,Bellatti MA

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anthelmintic fenbendazole (FBZ) induces nuclear DNA fragmentation (DF) in intestinal cells of Haemonchus contortus. The DNA fragments had 3'-OH, which suggests involvement of a neutral DNase. To identify candidate DNase(s) involved, DNase activity in H. contortus intestine and other worm fractions was characterize...

journal_title：Experimental parasitology

authors： Kwak D,Jasmer DP

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00