Variation in the cellular localization of host-protective oncospheral antigens in Taenia saginata and Taenia solium.

abstract：:A pilot safety and immunogenicity trial of the malaria vaccine SPf66 was undertaken in The Gambia in 1993. One hundred and fifty infants aged 6-11 months were immunized with either 0.5 mg or 1.0 mg of SPf66 produced either in Colombia or in the USA or with a control vaccine. Children who received SPf66 experienced mor...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Bojang KA,Obaro SK,Leach A,D'Alessandro U,Bennett S,Metzger W,Ballou WR,Targett GA,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CBA/J mice are resistant to Leishmania major infection but are permissive to L. amazonensis infection. In addition, CBA/J macrophages control L. major but not L. amazonensis infection in vitro. Phagocytosis by macrophages is known to determine the outcome of Leishmania infection. Pattern recognition receptors (PRR) ad...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Gomes IN,Palma LC,Campos GO,Lima JG,DE Almeida TF,DE Menezes JP,Ferreira CA,Santos RR,Buck GA,Manque PA,Ozaki LS,Probst CM,DE Freitas LA,Krieger MA,Veras PS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii-specific murine CD4+ T cell clone 3Tx9 belongs to the Th1 subtype by virtue of secreting high levels of interleukin(IL)-2, interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor without producing IL4 and IL10. To characterize the clonal antigen, Toxoplasma lysate-was separated by SDS-PAGE and probed in T cell bl...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Reichmann G,Dlugonska H,Fischer HG

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of intestinal helminth infection, i.e. Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura, on cellular responsiveness and cytokine production was investigated in young adults. Ascaris-specific cellular responsiveness was higher in parasite-free endemic controls than in patients infected with T. trichiura, or A. l...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Geiger SM,Massara CL,Bethony J,Soboslay PT,Carvalho OS,Corrêa-Oliveira R

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma from chronic or advanced hepatosplenic schistosomiasis (mansoni) patients (PCS) suppressed mitogen-induced responses of normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. 1 x 10(5) Ficoll-Hypaque isolated lymphocytes were cultured in 100 microliter RPMI 1640 media with 100 microliter plasma preparation and stimul...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Kamal KA,Higashi GI

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophosphamide (Cy) is known to produce a marked eosinophilia in mice after antigen challenge. In this study, we studied the effect of Cy on eosinophilia in helminthic infection. Peripheral blood eosinophils were counted in SJL mice following a large dose of Cy injection, infection with Toxocara canis, and both Cy i...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sugane K,Oshima T

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of primary infections with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis was followed in nude (CBH/R nu/nu) and heterozygote (CBH/R nu/+) rats. In both nude and heterozygote rats peak egg production by N. brasiliensis occurred on days 7 and 8 post-infection. However, whereas in heterozygote rats egg production declined rapi...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Smith NC,Ovington KS,Bryant C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the in vitro infection of ovine cells with Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites has been developed and used to investigate the effect of treatment with ovine recombinant interferon-gamma (ov.rIFN gamma) on parasite replication. Treatment of both alveolar macrophages and fibroblast cells either 24 h pre-infection ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Oura CA,Innes EA,Wastling JM,Entrican G,Panton WR

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether soluble Plasmodium falciparum antigens possess endotoxin-like properties, the interaction of Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) with defined soluble antigens from Plasmodium falciparum was studied by various crossed immunoelectrophoretic methods and immunoblotting. The soluble P. falciparum antigen...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Jakobsen PH,Baek L,Jepsen S

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven strains of Trypanosoma cruzi, originating from a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate hosts in distinct geographical regions, were examined for the reactivity of metacyclic stages with the monoclonal antibody 1G7. Trypomastigotes of five strains were susceptible to complement-dependent 1G7-mediated lysis. Hig...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mortara RA,Araguth MF,Yoshida N

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed the role of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) during cutaneous leishmaniasis and demonstrated that significant levels of TNF were released by spleen cells from infected mice after in vitro restimulation with Leishmania major promastigotes. Spleen cells from both genetically resistant and genetically ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Moll H,Binöder K,Bogdan C,Solbach W,Röllinghoff M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life cycle of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, is continuously closed in many rural settings in developing countries when free roaming pigs ingest human stools containing T. solium eggs and develop cysticercosis, and humans ingest pork infected with cystic larvae and develop intestinal taeniasis, or may also acci...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Garcia HH,Rodriguez S,Friedland JS,Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru.

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the antigenicity of p126 Plasmodium falciparum peptides with predicted antigenic regions identified using the methods described by Garnier et al. (1978) and Chou & Fasman (1974). For this purpose nine different P. falciparum peptides were synthesized in accordance with the deduced amino acid sequence of th...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ferreira-da-Cruz Mde F,Giovanni-de-Simone S,Banic DM,Canto-Cavalheiro M,Camus D,Daniel-Ribeiro CT

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of the tissue lesions observed in American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) seems to depend on a variety of mechanisms. The present study was dedicated to the investigation of the evolution of muscle lesions and its relationship with immunological and parasitological parameters. Mice were infected i....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Silva JC,Pirmez C,Morgado MG,Galvão-Castro B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theileria parva is a tick-borne intracellular protozoan of cattle, with obligate sequential differentiation stages in lymphocytes and erythrocytes. Immunity is mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) that target and clear parasitized lymphocytes but allow persistence of infected erythrocytes, which are required for ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： McKeever DJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p190 protein (also called MSA1 or MSP1) of the asexual blood stage forms of Plasmodium falciparum, a human malaria vaccine candidate, shows polymorphism between different isolates. Mice were immunized with p190-3, a recombinant protein which contains mostly conserved sequences derived from the p190 protein of the ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Süss G,Matile H,Meloen RH,Takacs B,Pink JR

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assayed the vaccine potentialities of a recombinant S. bovis-derived glutathione S-transferase (rSb28GST), member of a molecular family already shown to have protective capacities in the S. mansoni and S. japonicum models. Injection of the rSb28GST in Freund's Complete Adjuvant resulted in good specific IgG respons...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Boulanger D,Trottein F,Mauny F,Bremond P,Couret D,Pierce RJ,Kadri S,Godin C,Sellin E,Lecocq JP

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptocaryon irritans is one of the most important ectoparasites of marine fish. To identify the potential role of immune-related genes in antiparasitic immune responses in fish, we monitored the expression change of IL-8, COX-2, C-type lectin and transferrin in local and systemic immune organs of orange-spotted group...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Li YW,Dan XM,Zhang TW,Luo XC,Li AX

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of macrophage/dendritic cell (DC) cytokine production by the filarial nematode phosphorylcholine (PC)-containing product, ES-62, is mediated by Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and signal transduction depends on the TLR adaptor MyD88. Intriguingly, comparison of TLR4 knock-out (ko) mice with TLR4 mutant C3H/HeJ m...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Goodridge HS,McGuiness S,Houston KM,Egan CA,Al-Riyami L,Alcocer MJ,Harnett MM,Harnett W

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind study 393 seronegative dogs, residing in a holoendemic area for Leishmania donovani infantum infection, were randomly assigned to an immunization with a partly purified L.d. infantum-derived preparation, or received adjuvant only. During the first year of the study period the rate of infection was si...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Dunan S,Frommel D,Monjour L,Ogunkolade BW,Cruz A,Quilici M

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onchocerciasis is caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus and is a major public health problem in West and Central Africa. With only partial and long-term treatment currently available, there is a need to develop a suitable vaccine. We analysed the antibody response to infective L3 larvae because this stag...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Faulkner H,Gardon J,Kamgno J,Enyong P,Boussinesq M,Bradley JE

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA immunization represents a promising vaccine strategy that has been reasonably successful, and will likely play an even greater role in vaccine development as these vaccines continue to be improved. We have developed a partially protective DNA vaccine against schistosome infection based on a 23-kDa integral membran...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Da'Dara AA,Skelly PJ,Walker CM,Harn DA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromadorea abundant larval transcript (ALT) family of proteins contains ALT one of the most studied putative vaccine candidate in experimental filariasis. This study reports the characterization of Wuchereria bancrofti 20/22 (Wb20/22) as a member of chromadorea, the ALT family of proteins from the L3 stage of W. ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Aparnaa R,Mahalakshmi N,Harini A,Jeyaprita PJ,Anugraha G,Amdare NP,Khatri VK,Reddy MV,Kaliraj P

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, particularly Plasmodium falciparum, continues to disproportionately affect pregnant women. In addition to the profoundly deleterious impact of maternal malaria on the health of the mother and foetus, malaria infection in pregnancy has been shown to affect the development of the foetal and infant immune system...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Harrington WE,Kakuru A,Jagannathan P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported the usefulness of a 26-28 kDa coproantigen of Fasciola hepatica for diagnosis of infection. In this study, the 26-28 kDa coproantigen was biochemically characterized with the aid of monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) in an effort to better understand the biology of the antigen. Differential stain...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Abdel-Rahman S,O'Reilly KL,Malone JB

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis has recently garnered attention as one of the diseases 'most neglected' by drug research and development, as the current therapeutic modalities available for the patients are ridden with unacceptable toxicity due to high dosage of the drug, prolonged treatment schedules, resistance and prohibitive costs....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Joshi J,Kaur S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful endoparasites of mammals must outwit the sophisticated immune systems of their hosts that have evolved to detect and destroy/eradicate them. Many species of helminth parasite can directly or indirectly manipulate host immunity: helminth-derived molecules can suppress or skew activity of many immune cell phe...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： McKay DM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) plays diverse roles in a variety of pathological processes. We investigated the role of NO in Schistosoma japonicum egg-induced granuloma formation in a mouse hepatic model. Immunohistological analysis revealed that there is the most intense and extensive inducible nitric oxide (iNOS) expression 2 we...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hirata M,Hirata K,Kage M,Zhang M,Hara T,Fukuma T

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of Leishmania-infected sand flies. Here we show for the first time the ability of Maxadilan (Max), a vasodilatory peptide isolated from the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis, and salivary gland lysate (SGL) from Phlebotomus papatasi to decrease the secretion of...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rogers KA,Titus RG

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In schistosomiasis endemic areas, intensities of reinfection after treatment are greater amongst young children than amongst adults, and high levels of parasite-specific IgE are associated with resistance to reinfection in an age-dependent manner. Previously we have reported that, in Western blots, a 22 kDa band was r...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Dunne DW,Webster M,Smith P,Langley JG,Richardson BA,Fulford AJ,Butterworth AE,Sturrock RF,Kariuki HC,Ouma JH

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00