Temporal changes in the humoral immune response of cattle during experimental infections with Onchocerca lienalis.

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：: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：: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：:Crude total antigen (CTA) from Leishmania infantum and recombinant antigen K39 (rK39) and recombinant antigen K28 (rK28) were compared using an ELISA for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniosis (CVL). Forty-two blood samples from healthy dogs from a nonendemic area and 80 blood samples from an endemic area for ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Venturin GL,Bragato JP,Silva KL,de Lima VM

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Opisthorchis viverrini infection causes opisthorchiasis and is a risk factor for cholangiocarcinoma via chronic inflammation. To investigate the mechanism of O. viverrini -induced liver disease, we applied a proteomic approach to examine alterations in hepatic protein levels in O. viverrini -infected hamsters. Two-dim...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Khoontawad J,Wongkham C,Hiraku Y,Yongvanit P,Prakobwong S,Boonmars T,Pinlaor P,Pinlaor S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective effect of specific vaccination against Plasmodium berghei (P. berghei) was compared in terms of survival percentage in DBA/2, C3H, outbred albino mice and in two lines of mice produced by selective breeding for either high or low antibody responsiveness to sheep erythrocyte (H and L lines respectively)....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Heumann AM,Bucci A,Stiffel C,Casaglia O,Zenobi P,Biozzi G

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humoral responses of eight cats infected with Brugia pahangi to somatic antigens from all life-cycle stages were examined quantitatively by ELISA and qualitatively by immunoblotting for almost a year post infection. Six cats spontaneously became amicrofilaraemic: their production of IgG antibodies against somatic ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Fletcher C,Birch DW,Samad R,Denham DA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to investigate the role of neutrophils during the development of Schistosoma japonicum egg granulomas, in C57BL/6 and CBA mice. Laid eggs were implanted into the liver and monoclonal antibody, RB6-8C5, was used to eliminate neutrophils. After daily antibody treatment between days 9 and 1...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hirata M,Hara T,Kage M,Fukuma T,Sendo F

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an orally acquired pathogen, the immune response to Toxoplasma gondii unfolds in the small intestinal mucosa. There, an array of regulatory and effector immune cells are elicited to combat the parasite through secretion of inflammatory mediators, normally resulting in host protection and pathogen control. Recent st...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Cohen SB,Denkers EY

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is responsible for the disease's greater morbidity and poor prognosis. Although understanding the pathophysiology of CCC and the fundamentals of its clinical management derives from research related to other cardiomyopathies, there are peculiarities that distinguish CCC from the oth...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Chaves AT,Menezes CAS,Costa HS,Nunes MCP,Rocha MOC

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：:Parasitic nematodes are constantly exposed to the immune effector mechanisms of their hosts. One strategy of the worms to cope with these defence reactions is the secretion of modulatory proteins that down-regulate cell-mediated immune responses. We analysed the proliferation of mesenteric lymph node cells of mice inf...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rzepecka J,Lucius R,Doligalska M,Beck S,Rausch S,Hartmann S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory monoclonal antibody (MoAb) 8E7/55 recognizes a parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM) antigen in Plasmodium falciparum. Previous studies have identified the epitope, DNNLVSGP, recognized by the MoAb. A synthetic peptide containing this sequence was synthesized and coupled to diphtheria toxoid (DT) and was f...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Lord R,Jones GL,Spencer L,Saul A

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：: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：:The incidence of both type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) is drastically increasing, and it is predicted that the global prevalence of diabetes will reach almost 600 million cases by 2035. Even though the pathogenesis of both types of diabetes is distinct, the immune system is actively involved in both forms of the...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Surendar J,Indulekha K,Hoerauf A,Hübner MP

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipetalonema viteae (Filarioidea) infections were established in inbred strains of mice by the s.c. implantation of adult female worms and the resulting microfilaraemia and adult worm survival monitored. BALB/c mice were the most susceptible strain examined, showing a high level microfilaraemia of approximately 6 mont...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Storey N,Wakelin D,Behnke JM

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the humoral immune response on the weight and fecundity of the hookworm Necator americanus was examined in an endemically-infected human population. There was a highly significant negative correlation between total IgE levels and parasite weight and fecundity, after controlling for any effects of host ag...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Pritchard DI,Quinnell RJ,Walsh EA

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:Schistosomiasis japonicum is one of the most serious zoonotic diseases in the world. There is increasing evidence to show that host miRNAs are modulated following Schistosoma japonicum infection, and some of these miRNAs may play important regulatory roles in response to schistosome infection. Several host miRNAs have...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hong Y,Fu Z,Cao X,Lin J

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：: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 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：BACKGROUND:More than 11 million people were estimated to have been infected by Schistosoma japonicum in China before the 1950s. However, few studies have been conducted to evaluate the longitudinal effects of previous schistosome infection (PSI). OBJECTIVE:We aimed to evaluate the association of PSI with fatty liver a...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Zou ZQ,Liu M,Zhong HQ,Guan GY

更新日期：2021-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific CD8(-) T-lymphocyte (CTL) activity against Plasmodium pre-erythrocytic stages (P-ES) derived antigens is considered one of the most important mechanisms for malaria protection. Plasmodium vivax is the second most prevalent human malaria parasite species distributed worldwide. Although several CTL epitopes hav...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Arévalo-Herrera M,Valencia AZ,Vergara J,Bonelo A,Fleischhauer K,González JM,Restrepo JC,López JA,Valmori D,Corradin G,Herrera S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the hypothesis that activation of T cells by exposure to malaria antigens facilitates both de novo HIV infection and viral reactivation and replication. PBMC from malaria-naive HIV-uninfected European donors could be productively infected with HIV following in vitro stimulation with a lysate of Plasmodi...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Froebel K,Howard W,Schafer JR,Howie F,Whitworth J,Kaleebu P,Brown AL,Riley E

更新日期：2004-05-01 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