The role of microRNAs in Anopheles biology-an emerging research field.

abstract：:The pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is complicated. In our previous studies, TLR4 was found involved in the process of infection by Acanthamoeba in human corneal cells. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signalling pathway in Wistar rats challenged with Aca...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ren MY,Wu XY

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Trypanosoma congolense is one of the main species responsible for Animal African Trypanosomosis (AAT). As preventive vaccination strategies for AAT have been unsuccessful so far, investigating the mechanisms underlying vaccine failure has to be prioritized. In T. brucei and T. vivax infections, recent studies revealed...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Obishakin E,de Trez C,Magez S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-irradiated and gamma-irradiated schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni induce high levels of resistance to challenge infection in experimental hosts. It was observed that both types of irradiation severely inhibited protein synthesis by the parasite larvae. Schistosomula were treated with the metabolic inhibitor acti...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Wales A,Kusel JR,Jones JT

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac protoxin (pCry1Ac) is a promising mucosal immunogen and adjuvant that induces protective immunity against Naegleria fowleri and malaria infection models. We determined whether pCry1Ac acted as a protective adjuvant against infection with Taenia crassiceps. BALB/C mice were thrice i.p....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ibarra-Moreno S,García-Hernández AL,Moreno-Fierros L

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I hypersensitivity reactions in the intestinal tract of sensitized animals may contribute to resistance to reinfection with Fasciola hepatica. Colonic mucosae isolated from previously infected rats were voltage clamped in Ussing chambers. Antigen was prepared as a crude homogenate from adult liver fluke. Assay of...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： O'Malley KE,Sloan T,Joyce P,Baird AW

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：: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：:Human toxocariasis is a helminth zoonosis resulting from accidental infection of humans by the roundworms Toxocara canis (T. canis) and cati (T. cati). The infection occurs in five forms: systemic (VLM), ocular, neurological, covert and asymptomatic. The aim of this study was to characterize the radiological and immun...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mazur-Melewska K,Jończyk K,Modlińska-Cwalińska A,Figlerowicz M,Służewski W

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Plasmodium parasites are pathogens that induce significant perturbation and activation of the immune system. Due to their geographical overlap, there have been concerns that co-infection with the two pathogens may be a factor in the modification of their development, and in the s...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rénia L,Potter SM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemonchus contortus is an economically important parasite that survives the host defense system by modulating the immune response. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is secreted by the parasite and the host responds by producing anti-enzyme antibodies. The enzyme inhibits complement cascade, an arm of t...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rajan P,Mishra PKK,Joshi P

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized various anti-schistosomular surface MoAbs previously shown to partially block in-vitro killing of schistosomula by human sera and eosinophils (Dunne et al. 1987). Immunodiffusion analysis showed that four IgM and one IgG3 MoAbs recognized periodate sensitive epitopes on the same molecular species...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Bickle QD,Andrews BJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichuris muris is an intestinal nematode that invades the colonic epithelium triggering a mucosal inflammation. Vitamin A and its active metabolite retinoic acid are strongly linked with the modulation of gut immune responses. Here, we describe the temporal changes in the expression of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) e...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hurst RJ,Else KJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of five dogs were vaccinated against Babesia canis using soluble parasite (SPA) antigens from in vitro cultures. Although vaccination did not significantly alter peripheral parasitaemia upon challenge, protected animals had lower levels of SPA in the plasma after a challenge infection. The severity of anaemia c...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Schetters TP,Scholtes NC,Kleuskens JA,Bos HJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrated recently that immunization with recombinant Neospora caninum profilin (rNcPRO) induces limited protection and a regulatory T-cell response in mice. The aim of this study was to evaluate the immune response elicited by rNcPRO in cattle and assess a strategy to enhance its immunogenicity, combining the a...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mansilla FC,Quintana ME,Cardoso NP,Capozzo AV

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal human anti-hydatid antibodies were affinity purified from a hydatid patient serum and used to produce a rabbit anti-idiotypic serum. These anti-Id antibodies cross-reacted in ELISA with sera from 11 of 12 hydatid patients studied and with 13 infected or immunized mice sera. All mice primed and boosted with ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Carol H,Hernandez A,Baz A,Nieto A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the properties of 16 newly derived monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) against Pfs230, a gamete surface protein of Plasmodium falciparum and a target of transmission-blocking antibodies. All 16 MoAbs recognized Pfs230 by immunoprecipitation from non-ionic detergent extracts of the protein radio-labelled with...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Read D,Lensen AH,Begarnie S,Haley S,Raza A,Carter R

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Onchocerca volvulus and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are two immunocompromising infectious agents of major public health concern in Uganda. To examine the effect of coinfection with O. volvulus and HIV on cellular immune responses, lymphocyte proliferative responses and cytokine production of peripheral bloo...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sentongo E,Rubaale T,Büttner DW,Brattig NW

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carrier effect, using TNP-labelled schistosomula was used to measure the helper T-cell activity against the schistosomula surface in CBA mice exposed to 30 cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni. After infection the helper T-cell activity reached a peak in 8--10 days, but by 6 weeks it had declined to background levels....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ramalho-Pinto FJ,Smithers SR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which antibodies interfere with Plasmodium growth are still under debate. Characterizing the asexual erythrocyte stages susceptible to antibodies from hyperimmune individuals is therefore a relevant contribution to vaccine research. In this study, using a virulent and synchronous murine malaria paras...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Cavinato RA,Bastos KR,Sardinha LR,Elias RM,Alvarez JM,d'Império Lima MR

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on infectious agents as a possible cause of schizophrenia has become prominent in the past decade. Toxoplasma gondii has emerged as a prime candidate for a variety of reasons; (i) many studies have reported that individuals with schizophrenia, compared to controls, have a higher prevalence of antibodies to T....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Yolken RH,Dickerson FB,Fuller Torrey E

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of MHC class II in the presentation of Heligmosomoides polygyrus antigens has been investigated, using a number of T cell hybridomas produced in A and E positive and negative mice. By using fixed and irradiated antigen presenting cells (APC), further evidence has emerged, to support earlier data, that there c...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mason SD,Gustad TR,David CS,Robinson M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum from cats (Felis catus) that were repeatedly infected with Brugia pahangi and had become amicrofilaraemic (mf-ve) was injected intravenously into microfilaraemic (mf+ve) cats. If more than 1 microliter of immune serum per 1000 mf was injected, microfilarial counts fell dramatically within minutes and, in some ca...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Medeiros F,Baldwin CI,Denham DA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoid cells from genetically-susceptible BALB/c mice immunized against a glycoconjugate of the protozoan parasite, Leishmania major, promote chronic cutaneous disease in BALB/c nude mice. This cell population therefore differs from cells harvested from non-immunized BALB/c mice that are known to be potent mediators...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mitchell GF,Handman E

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines several aspects of a polymorphic, immunodominant molecule (PIM) found in the protozoan parasite, Theileria parva. The antigen is present in all T.p. parva stocks examined, and in the related subspecies, T.p.bovis and T.p.lawrencei. It is the predominant antigen recognized by antisera from immune ca...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Toye PG,Goddeeris BM,Iams K,Musoke AJ,Morrison WI

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysates of the haematoprotozoa Trypanosoma brucei or Plasmodium berghei stimulated murine peritoneal exudate cells to release a mediator, which suppressed lipoprotein lipase activity in differentiating 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. The parasite-induced mediator suppressed the activity of cell surface lipoprotein lipase up to ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hotez PJ,Le Trang N,Fairlamb AH,Cerami A

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translationally controlled tumour protein (TCTP) may play an important role in the establishment or maintenance of parasitemia in a malarial infection. In this study, the potential of TCTP as a malaria vaccine was investigated in two trials. In the initial vaccine trial, Plasmodium falciparum TCTP (PfTCTP) was express...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Taylor KJ,Van TT,MacDonald SM,Meshnick SR,Fernley RT,Macreadie IG,Smooker PM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts to produce monoclonal antibodies specific for a parasite-encoded or induced antigen on the surface of Theileria parva lawrencei-transformed bovine lymphocytes resulted in the identification of the monoclonal antibody J7. This antibody recognizes a membrane glycoprotein on some T.p. lawrencei-infected bovine l...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Newson J,Naessens J,Stagg DA,Black SJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal study was undertaken in Burkina Faso among 293 children aged 6 months to 9 years in order to determine the correlation between an antibody response to several individual malarial antigens and malarial infection. It was found that the presence of a positive antibody response at the beginning of the rainy...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Meraldi V,Nebié I,Tiono AB,Diallo D,Sanogo E,Theisen M,Druilhe P,Corradin G,Moret R,Sirima BS

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00