Chemiluminescence response of peritoneal exudate cells from mice infected with virulent and avirulent strains of Toxoplasma gondii.

abstract：:Urine and stool specimens from 425 school children in Swaziland were examined for evidence of Schistosoma mansoni or Schistosoma haematobium infection. Concurrently, saliva collections were analysed for ABH secretory ability and blood samples were typed for ABO, Rh and Lewis groups. Among individuals infected with S. ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Trangle KL,Goluska MJ,O'Leary MJ,Douglas SD

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:Na-ASP-2 is a major protein secreted by infective third-stage larvae (L3) of the human hookworm Necator americanus upon host entry. It was chosen as a lead vaccine candidate for its ability to elicit protective immune responses. However, clinical development of this antigen as a recombinant vaccine was halted because ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Zhan B,Santiago H,Keegan B,Gillespie P,Xue J,Bethony J,de Oliveira LM,Jiang D,Diemert D,Xiao SH,Jones K,Feng X,Hotez PJ,Bottazzi ME

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:The effect of infection and subsequent challenge with Eimeria maxima on the populations of lymphocytes in the small intestine of Light Sussex chickens was assessed by immunohistochemistry. T cells were characterized for CD3, CD4, CD8, TCR1 (gamma delta heterodimer) or TCR2 (alpha beta 1 heterodimer) markers, and B cel...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rothwell L,Gramzinski RA,Rose ME,Kaiser P

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The caecal-dwelling nematode Trichuris muris provides a natural model of human whipworm infection. Resistance to T. muris is dependent on a host Th2 response, and CD4+Th2 cells migrate to the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) to elicit parasite expulsion. Thus, CD4+T cells infiltrate the caecal lamina propria duri...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Bell LV,Else KJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies on the role of merozoite surface protein 3 (MSP3) in immunity against malaria have focused on a conserved section of MSP3. New evidence suggests that polymorphic sequences within MSP3 are under immune selection. We report a detailed analysis of naturally-acquired antibodies to allele-specific and conserve...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Osier FH,Polley SD,Mwangi T,Lowe B,Conway DJ,Marsh K

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Use of the pig as an animal model in schistosomiasis research is increasing, but knowledge of the porcine immune response to schistosome infection is still very limited. We investigated the immunohistology of different maturation stages of the Schistosoma japonicum egg granuloma in pigs. Liver sections from pigs exper...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hurst MH,Willingham AL,Lindberg R

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of macrophage activation were compared among inbred strains of mice (C3H, BALB, B6 and B10.A) that are known to differ in their relative resistance to infections with the myotropic strains (Colombian and CL) of Trypanosoma cruzi. The parameters utilized to measure macrophage activation were rapid spreadin...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Russo M,Starobinas N,Ribeiro-Dos-Santos R,Minoprio P,Eisen H,Hontebeyrie-Joskowicz M

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：: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：:Immunoprecipitations of in vitro translation products of mRNA from adult Schistosoma mansoni worms with sera from chronically infected mice of 12 inbred strains reveal a strain-dependent heterogeneity in the antibody responses to schistosome antigens. Of the strains tested the response to the 86K antigen was restricte...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Kee KC,Taylor DW,Cordingley JS,Butterworth AE,Munro AJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of macrophages is a key step in the initiation of immune responses, but the transcriptional mechanisms governing macrophage activation during infection are not fully understood. It was recently shown that the AP-1 family transcription factor JUNB positively regulates macrophage activation in response to Tol...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Fontana MF,Baccarella A,Kellar D,Oniskey TK,Terinate P,Rosenberg SD,Huang EJ,Herbert DR,Kim CC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate abomasal cytokine responses in helminth-naive calves and calves vaccinated with protective antigen fractions from Ostertagia ostertagi after an experimental challenge infection with infective third stage (L3) larvae. Abomasal lymph nodes and/or abomasal mucosa were collected...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Claerebout E,Vercauteren I,Geldhof P,Olbrechts A,Zarlenga DS,Goddeeris BM,Vercruysse J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of individuals catching schistosomiasis has increased with the popularity of 'primitive tourism' in Africa. Highly immunogenic material originating from the intestine of intravascular adult schistosomes gives rise to an antibody response making possible early identification of infected individuals using ser...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Thors C,Linder E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Schistosomiasis and malaria are endemic in sub-Saharan Africa where Schistosoma haematobium (Sh) and Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) coinfections are thus frequent. We explored the effect of Sh infection on antibody responses directed to Pf merozoite antigens and on malaria susceptibility in Beninese children. METHODS...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Tokplonou L,Nouatin O,Sonon P,M'po G,Glitho S,Agniwo P,Gonzalez-Ortiz D,Tchégninougbo T,Ayitchédji A,Favier B,Donadi EA,Milet J,Luty AJF,Massougbodji A,Garcia A,Ibikounlé M,Courtin D

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or Kala azar (KA) is a systemic disease caused by the parasites of the Leishmania donovani complex. Control measures rely on treatment with antileishmanial agents, however, fraught with problems such as toxicity or drug resistance. The incidence rate is on the rise for children, for reasons...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ansari NA,Kumar R,Raj A,Salotra P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humoral immunity develops in the spleen during blood-stage Plasmodium infection. This elicits parasite-specific IgM and IgG, which control parasites and protect against malaria. Studies in mice have elucidated cells and molecules driving humoral immunity to Plasmodium, including CD4+ T cells, B cells, interleukin (IL)...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sebina I,Fogg LG,James KR,Soon MSF,Akter J,Thomas BS,Hill GR,Engwerda CR,Haque A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep scab is caused by the noninvasive mite, Psoroptes ovis, which initiates a profound pro-inflammatory skin response leading to lesion development. To investigate these early events between the skin and the parasite, primary ovine epidermal keratinocyte cultures were generated and challenged with mite derived antig...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Watkins CA,Mackellar A,Frew D,Mackie C,George A,Hopkins J,Burgess ST,McNeilly TN,Huntley JF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect enzyme linked immunsorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of antibodies to Neospora caninum in serum from dogs is described. Extracted tachyzoite proteins incorporated into immunostimulating complexes (iscoms) were used as coating antigen. A mixture of a monoclonal antibody to dog immunoglobulin G and a horse...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Björkman C,Lundén A,Holmdahl J,Barber J,Trees AJ,Uggla A

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serodiagnosis of human toxocariasis is difficult. Specific IgGs detected routinely with ELISA based on Toxocara excretory-secretory (TES) antigens often persist for years at an elevated level, which does not allow either the differentiation between an active and persistent infection or monitoring of the effect of ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rudzińska M,Kowalewska B,Sikorska K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of T cell hybridomas were produced to adult worm homogenate (AWH) antigen of the nematode parasite Heligmosomoides polygyrus. All of the hybridomas were of the H-2d haplotype and could potentially accept antigen in the context of either the Ad or Ed, H-2 molecules. Three types of antigen presentation were obs...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

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

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TSOL18 is a recombinant protein that has been shown in repeated experimental trials to be capable of protecting pigs against challenge infection with the cestode parasite Taenia solium. Antibodies raised by the vaccine are capable of killing the parasite in an in vitro culture and it is believed that antibody and comp...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Assana E,Gauci CG,Kyngdon CT,Zoli AP,Dorny P,Geerts S,Lightowlers MW

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological basis of resistance to Brugia pahangi infection in rats was studied. Infections were investigated in athymic rnu/rnu rats and in rats treated with the immuno-suppressive agents cyclosporin A (CsA) or cyclophosphamide (Cy). The recovery of adult worms in normal rats was 1-2% in comparison to 12.2% rec...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Lawrence R,Denham DA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotype/subclass-specific antibody responses to adult Onchocerca volvulus extract (OvAg) were assessed by both ELISA and immunoblotting for a group of putatively immune individuals (PIs, n = 29) from a hyperendemic area in Ecuador and for a group of infected individuals (INFs, n = 470) from the same regions. As a grou...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Stewart GR,Elson L,Araujo E,Guderian R,Nutman TB,Bradley JE

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciola hepatica infection has been shown to suppress sheep lymphocyte proliferation in vitro and this is at least partially attributable to excretory/secretory products (ES) released by F. hepatica parasites. We identified a suppressive component in ES by analysing the effect of ES fractions, separated by gel filtra...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Prowse RK,Chaplin P,Robinson HC,Spithill TW

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00