Granulomatous hypersensitivity to Schistosoma mansoni EGG antigens in human schistosomiasis. IV. A role for prostaglandin-induced inhibition of in vitro granuloma formation.

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：:CD4(+) T cells respond to antigen immunization through a process of activation, clonal expansion to generate activated effector T cells followed by activation-induced clonal deletion of the responding T cells. While loss of responding T cells in post-activation death by apoptosis is a major factor regulating immune ho...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mukherjee P,Devi YS,Chauhan VS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last years, microRNAs (miRNAs) have been established as important post-transcriptional regulators of critical physiological processes in animals and plants. Here, we summarize what is known about miRNA biosynthesis, expression and function in the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae with a particular empha...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Lampe L,Levashina EA

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：AIMS:Our aim was to investigate the skin-homing T-cell immune responses triggered in patients with Demodex infestation and/or rosacea. METHODS:Collected whole blood samples were divided into four groups: control subjects; nonrosacea patients with Demodex infestation (Demodex group); papulopustular rosacea (PPR) patien...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Gazi U,Gureser AS,Oztekin A,Karasartova D,Kosar-Acar N,Derici MK,Artuz F,Mumcuoglu KY,Taylan-Ozkan A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African trypanosomes are well known for their ability to avoid immune elimination by switching the immunodominant variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) coat during infection. However, antigenic variation is only one of several means by which trypanosomes manipulate the immune system of their hosts. In this article, the r...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mansfield JM,Paulnock DM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA immunization represents a promising vaccine strategy that has been reasonably successful, and will likely play an even greater role in vaccine development as these vaccines continue to be improved. We have developed a partially protective DNA vaccine against schistosome infection based on a 23-kDa integral membran...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Da'Dara AA,Skelly PJ,Walker CM,Harn DA

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:The role of CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes in the development of a protective immune response against Cryptosporidium muris infection was studied by the reconstitution of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice with well-defined populations of either naive or immune CD8+ or CD4+ T lymphocytes. Adoptive transfer of bo...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Kváč M,Kodádková A,Sak B,Květoňová D,Jalovecká M,Rost M,Salát J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses of 97 Gambian women and their neonates were studied. New methods distinguished between active and previous placental malaria, were used to examine relationships between maternal malaria and neonatal immune responses. Many placentas (61%) had active or previous malarial infection. Maternal and cord mal...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Rasheed FN,Bulmer JN,De Francisco A,Jawla MF,Jakobsen PH,Jepson A,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally acquired humoral immune responses to Pfs16, an integral membrane protein expressed in Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes and sporozoites, were investigated in The Gambia. A high prevalence of antibodies to this molecule was detected by peptide ELISA. Ninety-three per cent of the people taking part in a survey...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Baker DA,Drakeley CJ,Ong CS,Lulat AG,Greenwood BM,Targett GA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indonesian thin-tail (ITT) sheep can resist infection with Fasciola gigantica but not F. hepatica and presents an ideal model to investigate the mechanisms of liver fluke resistance in a natural host. This study examines the local and systemic immune responses of sheep during Fasciola infection and demonstrates that d...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Pleasance J,Wiedosari E,Raadsma HW,Meeusen E,Piedrafita D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An essential element for continuing transmission of Plasmodium falciparum is the availability of mature gametocytes in human peripheral circulation for uptake by mosquitoes. Natural immune responses to circulating gametocytes may play a role in reducing transmission from humans to mosquitoes. Here, antibody recognitio...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Dinko B,King E,Targett GA,Sutherland CJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：: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：:To determine the role of T cells and mast cells in intestinal pathology and immune expulsion of intestinal nematodes, worm burdens, goblet cell responses and villus structures were analysed in T- and B-cell-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice, athymic nu/nu mice and mast cell deficient W/W(v) mice a...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Hashimoto K,Uchikawa R,Tegoshi T,Takeda K,Yamada M,Arizono N

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Carboxy-terminus of merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1(19) ) is the major protein on the surface of the plasmodial merozoite that acts as one of the most important blood-stage vaccine candidates. The present investigation was designed to evaluate the immune responses when either two recombinant antigens (rPvMSP-1(19) ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Mehrizi AA,Zakeri S,Rafati S,Salmanian AH,Djadid ND

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurocysticercosis (NCC), one of the most common parasitic diseases of the central nervous system, is caused by Taenia solium. This parasite involves two hosts, intermediate hosts (pig and human) and a definitive host (human) and has various stages in its complex life cycle (eggs, oncosphere, cysticerci and adult tape...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Arora N,Tripathi S,Kumar P,Mondal P,Mishra A,Prasad A

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:Cyclophosphamide (Cy) is known to produce a marked eosinophilia in mice after antigen challenge. In this study, we studied the effect of Cy on eosinophilia in helminthic infection. Peripheral blood eosinophils were counted in SJL mice following a large dose of Cy injection, infection with Toxocara canis, and both Cy i...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sugane K,Oshima T

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of macrophage/dendritic cell (DC) cytokine production by the filarial nematode phosphorylcholine (PC)-containing product, ES-62, is mediated by Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and signal transduction depends on the TLR adaptor MyD88. Intriguingly, comparison of TLR4 knock-out (ko) mice with TLR4 mutant C3H/HeJ m...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Goodridge HS,McGuiness S,Houston KM,Egan CA,Al-Riyami L,Alcocer MJ,Harnett MM,Harnett W

更新日期：2007-03-01 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 previously observed MHC-restriction of the antibody response to an 86kDa S. mansoni antigen has been investigated in more detail. The I-A locus of the H-2 complex has been implicated as conferring responder or non-responder status on mice expressing the k and b alleles respectively. Inheritance of responsiveness w...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Schweitzer AN,Taylor DW

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：:The pathogenesis of the tissue lesions observed in American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) seems to depend on a variety of mechanisms. The present study was dedicated to the investigation of the evolution of muscle lesions and its relationship with immunological and parasitological parameters. Mice were infected i....

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Silva JC,Pirmez C,Morgado MG,Galvão-Castro B

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the cDNA of TBA-1, the Nematode polyprotein allergen (NPA) of Toxocara canis and found it to be most similar to ABA-1, the Ascaris NPA, on the basis of amino acid sequence. We could study the antigenic properties of an E-coli synthesized fusion protein prepared with the cloned gene since no glycosylatio...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Yahiro S,Cain G,Butler JE

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of autoreactive T cells in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy in Chagas' disease, we generated a cell line by repeated in vitro antigenic stimulation of purified splenic CD4+ T lymphocytes from a chronically Trypanosoma cruzi-infected mouse. Cells from this line were confirmed to be CD4+ CD8- and pro...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ribeiro-Dos-Santos R,Mengel JO,Postol E,Soares RA,Ferreira-Fernandez E,Soares MB,Pontes-De-Carvalho LC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize immunodominant components of T. spiralis a workshop was organized. In this the reactivity of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, provided by different research groups, towards total extracts from adult, new born larvae and muscle larvae as well as to excretory/secretory components of muscle ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Ortega-Pierres MG,Yepez-Mulia L,Homan W,Gamble HR,Lim PL,Takahashi Y,Wassom DI,Appleton JA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00