Modulation of immune responses to parasitoids by polydnaviruses.

abstract：:A cDNA clone codifying ribosomal protein L25 was isolated from a Leishmania braziliensis cDNA gene library. The alignment of the amino acid sequence deduced from this gene with other proteins revealed that this protein is related to the L23/25 rihosomal protein family. This is so because this protein shows, in its C-t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： González AC,Martínez E,Carmelo E,Piñero JE,Alonso V,Del Castillo A,Valladares B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine fisheries in South American Atlantic coasts (SAAC) are threatened by overfishing and under serious risk of collapsing. The SAAC comprises a diversity of environments, possesses a complex oceanography and harbours a vast biodiversity that provide an enormous potential for using parasites as biological tags ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Timi JT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing support for the presence of viruses and virus-like particles inside protozoan cells. This study describes viral-like RNA molecules that have been detected in two species of Eimeria that infect the chicken. The RNA molecule identified in E. maxima has been characterized: subcellular fractionation st...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ellis J,Revets H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional sero-epidemiological study was performed in Magoda, Tanzania, an area where malaria is holoendemic. Blood samples were collected from children (1-4 years) and tested for IgG antibody reactivity against 2 recombinant protein fragments of Plasmodium falciparum Rhoptry-Associated Protein-1 (rRAP-1). The...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Alifrangis M,Lemnge MM,Moon R,Theisen M,Bygbjerg I,Ridley RG,Jakobsen PH

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bat flies are obligate ectoparasites of bats and it has been hypothesized that they may be involved in the transmission of Bartonella species between bats. A survey was conducted to identify whether Cyclopodia greefi greefi (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) collected from Ghana and 2 islands in the Gulf of Guinea harbour Barto...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Billeter SA,Hayman DT,Peel AJ,Baker K,Wood JL,Cunningham A,Suu-Ire R,Dittmar K,Kosoy MY

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on morphological variability of Eimeria species, which may be given either by drawings or as quantitative data. The drawings may be used to facilitate identification by eye of 'unknown' Eimeria specimens, whereas quantitative data may serve as a reference set for identification by multivariate stati...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sommer C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are a major tool to control malaria. Over recent years increased ITN coverage has been associated with decreased malaria transmission. However, ITN 'misuse' has been increasingly reported and whether this emergent behaviour poses a threat to successful malaria control and elimination is...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Honjo K,Chaves LF,Satake A,Kaneko A,Minakawa N

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the kinetics of adenosine transport were carried out on the P1 and P2 transporters of drug-sensitive Trypanosoma evansi and its cloned derivative, resistant to the melaminophenyl arsenical Mel CY. Characterization of adenosine uptake was made by estimation of the maximum concentration taken up at time infin...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Suswam EA,Ross CA,Martin RJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part of Robert T. Leiper's (1881-1969) lasting legacy in medical helminthology is grounded on his pioneering work on schistosomiasis (Bilharzia). Having undertaken many expeditions to the tropics, his fascination with parasite life cycles typically allowed him to devise simple preventive measures that curtailed transm...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stothard JR,Kabatereine NB,Archer J,Al-Shehri H,Tchuem-Tchuenté LA,Gyapong M,Bustinduy AL

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin-binding proteins (HBPs) play a key role in Trypanosoma cruzi-host cell interactions. HBPs recognize heparan sulfate (HS) at the host cell surface and are able to induce the cytoadherence and invasion of this parasite. Herein, we analysed the biochemical properties of the HBPs and also evaluated the expression ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Oliveira FO Jr,Alves CR,Silva FS,Côrtes LM,Toma L,Bouças RI,Aguilar T,Nader HB,Pereira MC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taenia crassiceps is a cestode parasite of wild and domestic animals that rarely affects humans; it has been widely used as an experimental model. The asexual proliferation by budding is a useful attribute of T. crassiceps cysticerci, which allows the various strains to be maintained indefinitely in the peritoneal cav...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Willms K,Zurabian R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An egg-adapted line of Eimeria necatrix has now been passaged 40 times in the chorio-allantoic membranes of embryonated eggs. Between the 21st and 40th passage in eggs the parasite was subjected to a selection for precocious development, and its pre-patent period in this host is now 123-125 h. The parasite continued t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shirley MW,Bellatti MA,Millard BJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, the validity of the assumption of concerted evolution of ribosomal regions in larval and adult Cooperia oncophora was assessed. In each of 4 individuals of this parasitic nematode, at least 78% of the sequences comprised different ITS variants. This implies that concerted evolution is not acting, which is corrob...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mes TH,Cornelissen AW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endemic transmission cycle of Babesia microti was discovered in Colorado in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. B. microti were found by PCR in 4 of 25 Ixodes spinipalpis tick pools tested (a 3.2 % minimum infection rate) and in 87% (13 of 15) of Microtus ochrogaster (the prairie vole) spleen and blood samples. U...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Burkot TR,Schneider BS,Pieniazek NJ,Happ CM,Rutherford JS,Slemenda SB,Hoffmeister E,Maupin GO,Zeidner NS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As has been shown previously, immunologically intact mice with patent Schistosoma mansoni infections had a significantly lower mean platelet number than intact uninfected mice (P<0.0001). However, platelet numbers in T-cell deprived mice with patent infections were not significantly different from those in uninfected ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stanley RG,Ngaiza JR,Atieno E,Jell G,Francklow K,Jackson CL,Parry H,Doenhoff MJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host-parasite relationship is exquisitely specific. In exploiting the host niche, a variety of helminth parasites have been shown to directly manipulate their hosts' immune responses. We assessed the ability of a whole-worm extract of Hymenolepis diminuta to modulate immune cell activation. Immune cells isolated f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wang A,McKay DM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect antibodies to Encephalitozoon cuniculi in man, using spores derived from tissue culture as antigen. Negligible cross-reactions were found with other microsporidia of vertebrate or of invertebrate origin and there was no cross-reaction with Toxoplasma gond...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hollister WS,Canning EU

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major transaminase in Heligmosomoides polygyrus, Panagrellus redivivus and rat liver was the 2-oxoglutarate-glutamate system, with relatively few amino acids acting as donors for the pyruvate-alanine and oxaloacetate-aspartate systems. The relative effectiveness of the different amino acid donors in the three tran...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Grantham BD,Barrett J

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichinella spiralis larvae infect and develop within skeletal muscle cells causing major changes to their mechanical properties. The aim of this investigation was to determine the effects of T. spiralis on the power output and fatigue resistance of the mammalian diaphragm under conditions simulating in vivo operation...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Harwood CL,Young IS,Lee DL,Altringham JD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal diarrheagenic polyparasitic infections are among the major public health concerns in developing countries. Here we examined stool specimens by microscopy, DNA dot blot and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to evaluate the co-infection of four principal protozoans among amoebic dysentery cases from Northeast I...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Nath J,Hussain G,Singha B,Paul J,Ghosh SK

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulin is the predominant phosphoprotein in Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes and is phosphorylated by a protein kinase CK2. Interestingly, the presence or absence of divalent cations affected the solubilization of a pool of the parasite tubulin and the CK2 responsible for its phosphorylation. This fraction of tubulin ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： De Lima AR,Medina R,Uzcanga GL,Noris Suárez K,Contreras VT,Navarro MC,Arteaga R,Bubis J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effectiveness of low doses of benznidazole (BNZ) on continuous administration (BNZc), combined with allopurinol (ALO), in C57BL/6J and C3H/HeN mice infected with Trypanosoma cruzi Nicaragua strain and T. cruzi Sylvio-X10/4 clone. TcN-C57BL/6J was also treated with intermittent doses of BNZ (BN...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rial MS,Scalise ML,López Alarcón M,Esteva MI,Búa J,Benatar AF,Prado NG,Riarte AR,Fichera LE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cDNAs encoding rhoptry-associated protein 1 (RAP-1) homologues were found in the Babesia gibsoni EST database. Based on similarities to BgRAP-1a, which was identified previously by serological screening of a cDNA merozoite library, the two new genes were designated BgRAP-1b (33.7%) and BgRAP-1c (57%). Mice antis...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Terkawi MA,Amornthep A,Ooka H,Aboge G,Jia H,Goo YK,Nelson B,Yamagishi J,Nishikawa Y,Igarashi I,Kawazu SI,Fujisaki K,Xuan X

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii has a unique enzyme, a NTPase, which has a wide specificity toward NTP. In the present study, we produced a monoclonal antibody (IgG1, 6C6) against the enzyme which could recognize NTPase isozymes among several strains of T. gondii. Three avirulent strains of T. gondii, ME49, Beverley and Nakayama, w...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kikuchi T,Furuta T,Kojima S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philasterides dicentrarchi causes a severe disease in turbot, and at present there are no drugs available to treat infected fish. We have previously demonstrated that, in addition to the classical respiratory pathway, P. dicentrarchi possesses an alternative mitochondrial respiratory pathway that is cyanide-insensitiv...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mallo N,Lamas J,Leiro JM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizont-infected red blood cells (SI-RBC) from Plasmodium berghei-infected mice contain between 2 and 10 times as much sialic acid as uninfected RBC from the same blood (99-550 micrograms/10(10) RBC versus 33-65 micrograms/10(10) RBC). Total RBC samples from infected animals containing up to 63% ring- and trophozoite...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Howard RJ,Seeley DC Jr,Kao V,Wember M,Schauer R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases caused by viruses are a constant and major problem for livestock production world wide. The diseases range from highly contagious acute forms with high mortality, to chronic disabling diseases with an insidious effect on production. Such diseases cannot be regarded as static in nature due to the highly mutabl...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crowther JR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxozoans have been successfully used as tags for fish stock identification around the world. However, few studies using myxozoan tags have been carried out in the Southern Atlantic, a region with complex oceanography that constitutes a potentially suitable scenario for testing the utility of myxozoans as indicators. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Irigoitia MM,Holzer AS,Timi JT

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by larval Echinococcus granulosus is usually characterized by tight inflammatory control. However, various degrees of chronic granulomatous inflammation are also observed, reaching a high point in infection of cattle by the most prevalent parasite strain worldwide, which is not well adapted to this host spec...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Basika T,Muñoz N,Casaravilla C,Irigoín F,Batthyány C,Bonilla M,Salinas G,Pacheco JP,Roth J,Durán R,Díaz A

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesiculated protoscoleces (VP) were produced by culturing freshly collected protoscoleces from Echinococcus granulosus horse liver hydatids in RPMI 1640 monophasic medium at 37 degrees C for 18 days. Half of the VP were used as such, the other half used after killing them by freeze-thawing. Nine-day-old chicken heart ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Janssen D,De Rycke PH,De Ridder L

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00