Antigen-specific and concanavalin A-induced lymphocyte blastogenesis responses during the course of Plasmodium berghei infection in rats.

abstract：:The zymosan-triggered chemiluminescence response of peritoneal exudate cells from mice infected with relatively virulent or avirulent Toxoplasma gondii strains was examined at various intervals after infection. Toxoplasma infections increased the background chemiluminescence compared with controls, but higher values w...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Masihi KN,Werner H,Gillert KE,Lange W

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infective forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas' disease, express on their surface an enzyme denominated trans-sialidase (TS). The present study was designed to evaluate the naturally acquired immune responses to a bacterial recombinant protein representing the catalytic domain of TS in chronical...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ribeirão M,Pereira-Chioccola VL,Rénia L,Augusto Fragata Filho A,Schenkman S,Rodrigues MM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) infected with Leishmania donovani develop a disease similar to human kala-azar. There is conspicuous hypergammaglobulinaemia and their T cells do not respond to stimulation by parasite antigens. The impairment of the cellular immune response seems to be restricted to parasite ant...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rodrigues Júnior V,Da Silva JS,Campos-Neto A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to gain insights into the immune response in onchocerciasis during early infection, laboratory-reared calves were infected with 1000 Onchocerca lienalis infective larvae and examined serologically over a period of 508 days. Levels of serum antibodies measured by ELISA against adult worm extract revealed a mul...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Kuo YM,Bianco AE

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to S. mansoni cercarial challenge, induced by prior infection of rats with cercariae, is analysed by substitution of alternatives to the primary cercarial exposure. Intravenous injections of either live or killed 4-week stage worms have been examined, utilizing two different routes of injection, one or two ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Knopf PM,Spitalny KC,Dang A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infective larvae of Toxocara canis are well suited for studies of nematode antigen expression in vitro. Larvae were labelled with 3H-glucosamine, an approach permitting dual analysis of antigen quantity and composition. Their excretory/secretory (E/S) glycoproteins were efficiently labelled and antigen identity confir...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Williamson HJ,Allardyce RA,Clemett RS,Hidajat RR

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Phosphorylcholine-bearing component levels in extracts of various parasites were determined by a capillary precipitin test using anti-phosphorylcholine Ig A myeloma protein. TEPC-15. Phosphorylcholine was demonstrated as a structural component not only in nematodes but also in trematodes and cestodes. The phosphorylch...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sugane K,Oshima T

更新日期：1983-07-01 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：:Mice can be immunized to Plasmodium vinckei by repeated infections followed by cure. Such immunity is dependent on CD4 T cells and an architecturally modified spleen, but has little requirement for antibody. Thus, athymic mice can be exposed to P. vinckei and cured, but do not develop immunity. They are resistant to c...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Winkel KD,Good MF

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania donovani, the causative parasite of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), deviously manipulates host monocytes/macrophages to ensure its survival. Although monocytes/macrophages from patients with VL have demonstrated an impaired oxidative burst and antigen presentation, an unanswered yet pertinent question remains ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Roy S,Mukhopadhyay D,Mukherjee S,Moulik S,Chatterji S,Brahme N,Pramanik N,Goswami RP,Saha B,Chatterjee M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven mixed-breed dogs were challenged with either promastigotes or amastigotes of Leishmania donovani infantum strains recently isolated from naturally infected dogs. Different routes and numbers of parasites were utilized and each dog was monitored for at least 1 year post-infection. Anti-parasite specific antibody ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Abranches P,Santos-Gomes G,Rachamim N,Campino L,Schnur LF,Jaffe CL

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) obtained from mice infected or immunized with Plasmodium berghei to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the biological basis of this response was investigated, using luminol-dependent zymosan-triggered chemiluminescence (CL). CL response of PEC from infected mice in...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Li M,Li YJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is good evidence for costs to both the uses of immune defences and their development and maintenance. The optimal defence will be a balance of these costs with the risk of infection and the virulence of the disease. It is therefore clear that the life-history characteristics of both host and parasite will impact...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Boots M,Donnelly R,White A

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Immunity to Schistosoma mansoni in the mouse was induced by vaccination with adult worm surface membrane (mb-S). Of several adjuvants tested, including Freund's, BCG and alum, 50 micrograms of saponin per mouse given subcutaneously with the antigen was the easiest to administer, and gave consistent protection, approac...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Smithers SR,Hackett F,Ali PO,Simpson AJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascariasis is the most frequent soil transmitted helminthiasis and, as well as other helminth infections, is expected to influence the clinical presentation of allergic diseases such as asthma. Indeed, several clinical and experimental works have shown an important impact either increasing or suppressing symptoms, and...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Caraballo L,Acevedo N,Zakzuk J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal injection of Trypanosoma brucei AnTat 1.1 into mice of the C3H.He, BALB/c or C57BL/6 strains resulted in impaired immune responses from day 3 onwards, as measured by the reduction in DNA synthesis in spleen cell populations stimulated with concanavalin A (Con-A) in vitro. Adherent cells from the perito...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Borowy NK,Sternberg JM,Schreiber D,Nonnengasser C,Overath P

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum antibody responses of mice exposed to Philippine isolates of Schistosoma japonicum have been analysed by immunoprecipitation of exogenously radiolabelled antigens extracted from adult worms. Attention was focused on labelled protein antigens differentially recognized by sera of mice that differ genetically in th...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mitchell GF,Beall JA,Cruise KM,Tiu WU,Garcia EG

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyporesponsiveness induced by Heligmosomoides polygyrus was quantified and the relationship between TGF-beta and inflammation was identified in BALB/c mice. The immune response and pathological changes modified by neutralization of TGF-beta were characterized in vivo. Nine and twelve days following infection, BALB/c m...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Doligalska M,Rzepecka J,Drela N,Donskow K,Gerwel-Wronka M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African trypanosomes cause human and animal African trypanosomiases, which are chronic, debilitating and often fatal diseases of people and livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. The extracellular protozoan parasites are exemplars of antigenic variation. They direct host-protective B-cell and T-cell immune responses towards...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Black SJ,Mansfield JM

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:The knowledge on immune mechanisms of chronic urticaria (CU) at the cytokine level is widely scarce. We compared pro- and anti-inflammatory as well as Th1- and Th2-associated serum cytokine levels in two phenotypes of CU: associated with (CU+) and without (CU⁻) sensitization against Anisakis simplex, a ubiquitous fish...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Daschner A,Rodero M,DE Frutos C,Valls A,Vega F,Blanco C,Cuéllar C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host cell death induced by Entamoeba histolytica is an important mechanism for both host defence and microbial immune evasion during human amoebiasis. However, the signalling pathways underlying cell death induced by E. histolytica are not fully understood. This study investigated the involvement of the protein tyrosi...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Kim KA,Lee YA,Shin MH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of mammals with irradiated malaria sporozoites protects from a subsequent contact with the parasite. Protective immunity is directed against the pre-erythrocytic stages of the parasite, sporozoites and liver stages. Specific antibodies neutralize part of the infectious sporozoites infected by the mosquito...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Renggli J,Hahne M,Matile H,Betschart B,Tschopp J,Corradin G

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood eosinophilia, histology of skeletal muscle and brain, and larval recovery were compared between congenitally athymic nude mice (nu/nu) and thymus-bearing heterozygous littermates (nu/+) for 6 weeks following oral infection with Toxocara canis eggs. By comparing patterns of peripheral blood eosinophil ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sugane K,Oshima T

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On a B10 (Lshs) genetic background, the development of acquired T cell mediated immunity to Leishmania donovani infection in mice is under H-2 linked genetic control. Following intravenous inoculation of 10(7) amastigotes three phenotypic patterns of recovery have been described: 'early cure' (H-2r,s), 'cure' (H-2b) a...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ulczak OM,Blackwell JM

更新日期：1983-09-01 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：: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：: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