Thymus graft reconstitution of T-cell-deprived mice infected with Trypanosoma musculi.

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：:Impairment of T cell proliferation in mice infected with the pleomorphic Trypanosoma brucei AnTat 1.1 E clone was found not to be related to a depletion of T cells or to an absence of functional accessory cells, but rather to an active suppression of interleukin 2 (IL-2) production. Lymph node cells derived from infec...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sileghem M,Hamers R,De Baetselier P

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hookworms are one of the most prevalent parasites of humans in developing countries, but we know relatively little about the immune response generated to hookworm infection. This can be attributed to a lack of permissive animal models and a relatively small research community compared with those of the more high-profi...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： McSorley HJ,Loukas A

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Helminth parasites induce a strong Th2 response, characterized by high levels of IgE and elevated signature cytokines such as IL-5. As many global deworming programmes are underway, there is concern that this might lead to emergence of Th1-mediated pathologies when the counterbalancing helminth-induced Th2 response is...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： de Ruiter K,Tahapary DL,Wammes LJ,Wiria AE,Hamid F,van Lieshout L,Smit JWA,Houwing-Duistermaat JJ,Sartono E,Supali T,Yazdanbakhsh M

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Advances in hookworm immunoepidemiology are reviewed. Recent studies demonstrate a mixed Th1/Th2 response in human hookworm infection, with immunosuppression of specific and nonspecific IFN-gamma responses. There is increasing evidence for protective immunity in human hookworm infection, including anti-larval IL-5- an...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Quinnell RJ,Bethony J,Pritchard DI

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:Previous work has shown that a protein extract enriched for cysteine protease activity (TSBP) prepared from adult Haemonchus contortus using thiol sepharose affinity chromatography confers substantial protection against a single challenge infection. TSBP comprised proteases and other proteins. Here, TSBP were further ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Knox DP,Smith SK,Redmond DL,Smith WD

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-leishmanial effect of the 'carbohydrate-fraction', isolated from an edible mushroom Astraeus hygrometricus, was evaluated against Leishmania donovani infection both in vitro and in vivo. Ahf-Car induced the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase 2 (iNOS2) and pro-inflammatory cytokines like TNF-α and I...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hussain A,Ghosh S,Roy K,Nath S,Sarkar B,Dutta A,Maji P,Basu S,Paul S,Dey S,Chakraborty K,Raychaudhury B,Acharya K,Ganguly J,Pal C

更新日期：2020-10-31 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：:Migration of human peripheral blood granulocytes in response to microfilariae of O. volvulus was demonstrated using modified Boyden chambers. Granulocyte migration was significantly enhanced when microfilariae were preincubated with heat-inactivated immune serum (delta IS), then added to a fresh serum source (P less t...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： King CH,Spagnuolo PJ,Greene BM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi was established in the reduviid vector, Dipetalogaster maximus, by repeated feedings on mice with high parasitaemias, and metacyclic trypomastigotes (IMT) were collected in insect urine after blood meals. The infectivity of IMT in mice was assessed by placing varying numbers of organis...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Kirchhoff LV,Hoft DF

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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 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：:Longitudinal cohort studies are important to describe the dynamics of naturally acquired antibody response profiles to defined Plasmodium falciparum malaria antigens relative to clinical malaria episodes. In children under 7 years of age in The Gambia, serum IgG responses were measured to P. falciparum merozoite antig...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Akpogheneta OJ,Dunyo S,Pinder M,Conway DJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：: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：:In this study we have investigated the ability of the stage-specific monoclonal antibody (MoAb) 1G7 to neutralize the infectivity of Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclic trypomastigotes (Tulahuen strain). Mice inoculated with metacyclics pre-incubated with 1G7 or the corresponding Fab fragments were found to develop greatly r...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Araguth MF,Rodrigues MM,Yoshida N

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is a cyst-forming coccidian parasite which in cattle can cause abortion and birth of feeble calves. For the serological diagnosis of neosporosis, antibodies directed to the parasite can be demonstrated by ELISA, utilizing N. caninum proteins incorporated into iscoms (immunostimulating complexes) as an...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Björkman C,Hemphill A

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In modern societies, diseases that are driven by dysregulated immune responses are increasing at an alarming pace, such as inflammatory bowel diseases and diabetes. There is an urgent need to understand these epidemiological trends, which are likely to be driven by the changing environment of the last few decades. The...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Loke P,Lim YA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The merozoite surface protein 2 of P. falciparum is highly polymorphic in nature, but has regions of almost complete conservation at its N- and C-termini. We produced a chimeric recombinant protein comprising these regions only (hereafter termed NC). Mice immunized with the NC antigen produce antibodies at levels comp...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Lawrence N,Stowers A,Mann V,Taylor D,Saul A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the plethora of evidence on the consequences of host nutrition on their immune responses to gastrointestinal parasites, the identity of molecules and mechanisms that drive the manifestations of immunity under nutrient abundance are not yet known. This is partly due to limitations of the methodologies employed ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Athanasiadou S,Huntley JF

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：:Two monoclonal antibodies against the surface of S. mansoni schistosomula were found to confer significant passive protection to mice (M7B3A, range 28-70%; M22H12C, range 14-58%). No additive effect was observed when both were transferred together. Neither McAb bound to the cercarial surface but both bound to the surf...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Bickle QD,Andrews BJ,Taylor MG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV and T. gondii infection markers were measured among 383 Intravenous Drug Users (IDU). And cytokine concentrations (IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12, IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha) were determined. The results showed IDU with HIV infection or HIV/T. gondii co-infection could disturb Th regulatory mechanism. ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Li JR,Gong RY,Li YP,Bai Y,You F,Deng S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00