Identification, characterization and expression of Toxocara canis nematode polyprotein allergen TBA-1.

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

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：: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：: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：:The mechanisms by which antibodies interfere with Plasmodium growth are still under debate. Characterizing the asexual erythrocyte stages susceptible to antibodies from hyperimmune individuals is therefore a relevant contribution to vaccine research. In this study, using a virulent and synchronous murine malaria paras...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Cavinato RA,Bastos KR,Sardinha LR,Elias RM,Alvarez JM,d'Império Lima MR

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Athymic nude mice of the outbred Zur:ICR-nu and inbred BALB/c strain and scid mice were infected with a cloned human isolate of Giardia lamblia (GS/M-83-H7). Changes in the expression of the major surface epitope of the intestinal trophozoites (characterized by the binding capacity of monoclonal antibody MoAbG10/4) as...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Gottstein B,Nash TE

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The chromadorea abundant larval transcript (ALT) family of proteins contains ALT one of the most studied putative vaccine candidate in experimental filariasis. This study reports the characterization of Wuchereria bancrofti 20/22 (Wb20/22) as a member of chromadorea, the ALT family of proteins from the L3 stage of W. ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Aparnaa R,Mahalakshmi N,Harini A,Jeyaprita PJ,Anugraha G,Amdare NP,Khatri VK,Reddy MV,Kaliraj P

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper reviews the available literature on the development of immunity to animal Schistosoma infections. The majority of the studies on animal schistosomiasis were performed in cattle and pigs and only Schistosoma mattheei, S. bovis and S. japonicum received particular attention, mainly because of their rec...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Vercruysse J,Gabriel S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Toxocara (T.) canis antigen (TcAg) on lymphocytes was studied in vitro using normal murine spleen cells and human peripheral blood lymphocytes. TcAg prepared from adult worms stimulated murine spleen cells to proliferate at concentrations of 1-125 micrograms/ml. The responder cells TcAg are B cells, beca...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Wang MQ,Jiang HJ,Inoue H,Myozaki M,Yamashita U

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Net intestinal fluid movement was measured in immunized and non-immunized rats infected with the enteric stages of the nematode, Trichinella spiralis. Animals were studied 30 min, 5 days and 30 days after receiving infective larvae. Net water movement across the mucosal surface of the gut was measured in vivo by perfu...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Castro GA,Hessel JJ,Whalen G

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Previous studies have shown that Leishmania elongation initiation factor (LeIF) antigen causes a partial immunity against leishmaniasis. The antigen develops type I immunity by overexpression of inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-12 (IL-12), IFN-γ and TNF-α. Therefore, We evaluated immune responses induced by ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Maspi N,Ghaffarifar F,Sharifi Z,Dalimi A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C57BL/6 mouse strain is resistant to Leishmania (L.) major infection and, unlike susceptible BALB/c, develops small self-healing cutaneous lesions. The specific antibody responses of C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice were previously characterized by the predominance of IgG2a ('resistant' isotype associated with Th1) and IgG...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Sassi A,Kaak O,Ben Ammar Elgaied A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in phagocytic and adherent cell numbers were compared during the course of infections of mice with Plasmodium yoelii (Py) and P. berghei (Pb) and in vaccinated mice challenged with homologous parasites. Nucleated cells in the spleen increased in number in Py-infected mice and were maximal at the time of recove...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Lelchuk R,Taverne J,Agomo PU,Playfair JH

更新日期：1979-04-01 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：:Malaria remains one of the most serious health problems globally, but our understanding of the biology of the parasite and the pathogenesis of severe disease is still limited. Multiple cellular effector mechanisms that mediate parasite elimination from the liver have been described, but how effector cells use classica...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Frevert U,Nacer A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural site of infection for T. gondii is the mucosal surface of the intestine, so the protective immunity obtained after natural infection with T. gondii points to the importance of developing a vaccine that stimulates mucosal defences. In this study, an aroA- and aroD- attenuated strain of Salmonella typhimuriu...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Cong H,Gu QM,Jiang Y,He SY,Zhou HY,Yang TT,Li Y,Zhao QL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania major causes mild-to-severe cutaneous lesions resulting in significant disfigurations, if untreated. The drugs are toxic, and drug-resistance parasites are emerging. Therefore, a prophylactic vaccination is an urgent need. As no vaccine is available, we compared the genes expressed by virulent and avirulent...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Zutshi S,Kumar S,Sarode A,Roy S,Sarkar A,Saha B

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past several decades, outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in wild birds have attracted worldwide media attention, either because of their extreme virulence or because of alarming spillovers into agricultural animals or humans. The pathogens involved have been found to infect a variety of bird hos...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Staley M,Bonneaud C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysticercosis is acquired when swine ingest human faeces contaminated with Taenia solium eggs. Humans become tapeworm carriers when they ingest infected pork meat. They can also develop cysticercosis after inadvertently swallowing T. solium eggs. Human neurocysticercosis (NCC) is considered as a public health problem ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Flisser A,Gyorkos TW

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to detect the complement-binding proteins in the excretory-secretory (ES) products of adult filarial parasite Setaria equina (SeqES). Tests for complement activation pathways (CH50 and APH50 ) in normal human serum (NHS) after incubation with SeqES were performed. Quantitative detection of comp...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Abdel-Latif M

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:ES-62 is a glycoprotein secreted by the filarial nematode Acanthocheilonema viteae that protects against ovalbumin (OVA)-induced airway hyper-responsiveness in mice by virtue of covalently attached anti-inflammatory phosphorylcholine (PC) residues. We have recently generated a library of small molecule analogues (SMAs...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Janicova L,Rzepecka J,Rodgers DT,Doonan J,Bell KS,Lumb FE,Suckling CJ,Harnett MM,Harnett W

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CBA/J mice are resistant to Leishmania major infection but are permissive to L. amazonensis infection. In addition, CBA/J macrophages control L. major but not L. amazonensis infection in vitro. Phagocytosis by macrophages is known to determine the outcome of Leishmania infection. Pattern recognition receptors (PRR) ad...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Gomes IN,Palma LC,Campos GO,Lima JG,DE Almeida TF,DE Menezes JP,Ferreira CA,Santos RR,Buck GA,Manque PA,Ozaki LS,Probst CM,DE Freitas LA,Krieger MA,Veras PS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic nematodes of the small-ruminant gastrointestinal tract pose a problem worldwide. The impact of these pathogens is worsened by the emergence of anthelmintic resistance to all three available classes of drugs. In addition to causing considerable economic loss, these parasites are detrimental to the health and ...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： McNeilly TN,Devaney E,Matthews JB

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of five dogs were vaccinated against Babesia canis using soluble parasite (SPA) antigens from in vitro cultures. Although vaccination did not significantly alter peripheral parasitaemia upon challenge, protected animals had lower levels of SPA in the plasma after a challenge infection. The severity of anaemia c...

journal_title：Parasite immunology

authors： Schetters TP,Scholtes NC,Kleuskens JA,Bos HJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00