Matrix metalloproteinases mediate the metastatic phenotype of Theileria annulata-transformed cells.

abstract：:Cysteine proteases of pathogenic protozoan parasites play pivotal roles in the life cycle of parasites, but strict regulation of their activities is also essential for maintenance of parasite physiology and interaction with hosts. In this study, we identified and characterized cryptostatin, a novel inhibitor of cystei...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kang JM,Ju HL,Yu JR,Sohn WM,Na BK

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium fluoride (NaF) is an anion that has been previously shown to block the moulting process of Ascaris suum larvae. This study describes moulting and development-specific protein expression profiles of A. suum lung-stage L3 (AsLL3) following NaF exposure. AsLL3s cultured in the presence or absence of NaF were prepa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Islam MK,Miyoshi T,Yamada M,Alim MA,Huang X,Motobu M,Tsuji N

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host nutrition plays an important role in determining the development and success of parasitic infections. While studies of vertebrate hosts are accumulating, little is known about how host nutrition affects parasites of invertebrate hosts. Crithidia bombi is a gut trypanosome parasite of the bumble bee, Bombus terres...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Logan A,Ruiz-González MX,Brown MJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The individual and combined effects of cadmium (Cd) and 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB 126) on the antibody response of fish against metazoan parasites were tested. Eels experimentally infected with the swim bladder nematode Anguillicola crassus were exposed to sublethal concentrations of Cd and PCB 126. Cd was ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sures B,Knopf K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against Neospora caninum tachyzoites were produced to identify the cross-reactive antigens between N. caninum and Toxoplasma gondii. Ten mAbs recognizing cross-reactive antigens of both parasites were obtained and tentatively classified into 6 different groups based on their reactiv...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Liao M,Xuan X,Huang X,Shirafuji H,Fukumoto S,Hirata H,Suzuki H,Fujisaki K

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) were determined in detergent-soluble, somatic and excretion-secretion (E-S) preparations from adult Fasciola hepatica using the xanthine oxidase system and visualized in substrate gels. Compared to detergent-soluble and somatic extracts, E-S products showed the highest SOD acti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Piacenza L,Radi R,Goñi F,Carmona C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) stand out as an important cause of disease in small ruminant, especially on goat farm. Widespread resistance to synthetic anthelminthics has stimulated the research for alternative strategies of parasite control, including the use of medicinal plants. The present work summarizes th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Oliveira Santos F,Ponce Morais Cerqueira A,Branco A,José Moreira Batatinha M,Borges Botura M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of molecular diversity were identified in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (cox1) gene sequences of Schistosoma turkestanicum from Hungary. These cox1 sequences were all specific to Hungary which contrasted with the low levels of diversity seen in the nuclear internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) sequ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lawton SP,Bowen LI,Emery AM,Majoros G

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoan parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium infect all vertebrate groups and display some host specificity in their infections. It is therefore possible to assume that Cryptosporidium parasites evolved intimately aside with vertebrate lineages. Here we propose a scenario of Cryptosporidium-Vertebrata coevolution ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Garcia-R JC,Hayman DT

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A field trial was conducted to evaluate the potential of the nematode-destroying fungus Duddingtonia flagrans to control free-living stages of horse strongyles. In late Spring 2 groups of horses (yearlings) with mixed infections of strongyles were allowed to contaminate 2 equal-sized pastures. One of the groups (F) re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Larsen M,Nansen P,Grøndahl C,Thamsborg SM,Grønvold J,Wolstrup J,Henriksen SA,Monrad J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of breeding hens with Eimeria maxima induces production of Eimeria-specific IgG antibodies which are transferred to hatchlings via the egg yolk and confer a high degree of maternal immunity against homologous challenge and partial immunity to infection with another important species, Eimeria tenella. As an e...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Smith NC,Wallach M,Petracca M,Braun R,Eckert J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourth-stage larvae of Ascaris suum, recovered from piglets at 11-22 days post-infection (p.i.), were examined by light microscopy for changes in the somatic musculature. During this time the estimated total number of muscle cells in the body increases from approximately 600 to 21 000 cells. This non-eutelic developme...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： O'Grady RT

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) appearance of the brain and spinal cord in humans with neuroangiostrongyliasis (NA) due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection has been well reported. Equivalent studies in animals are lacking. This case series describes clinical and MRI findings in 11 dogs with presumptively or ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wun MK,Malik R,Yu J,Chow KE,Lau M,Podadera JM,Webster N,Lee R,Šlapeta J,Davies S

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongyloides ratti is a parasitic nematode of rats. The host immune response against S. ratti affects the development of its free-living generation, favouring the development of free-living adult males and females at the expense of directly developing, infective 3rd-stage larvae. However, how the host immune response...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crook M,Viney ME

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:The spermatozoa of ticks are anomalous in many respects: they are very large, cytoplasm-rich cells which lack a flagellum but move with a peculiar gliding motility. Their metamorphosis after deposition in the female has been well documented, but many of the subsequent events in the career of the spermatozoa are...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Resler JH,Frazier JL,Shepherd JG,Modafferi JD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When eggs of the monogenean Dictyocotyle coeliaca, a parasite from the body cavity of Raja naevus, are incubated in alternating 12 h periods of light and darkness at 12 degrees C the marginal hooklets appear between 75 and 90 days after collecting the eggs from the host's body cavity and hatching begins after about 10...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kearn GC

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 186 bp Echinococcus granulosus-specific repetitive element, TREg, was used to assess genetic variation between strains. In G7 genotype (pig strain) it has the characteristics of a satellite DNA element with a copy number of 23000 per haploid genome. Analysis, by sequencing of TREg monomers, showed a great degree of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rosenzvit MC,Canova SG,Kamenetzky L,Guarnera EA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence exists that lethal activity is associated with extracts from Eimeria tenella-infected caecal tissues. We examined tissues of the small intestine infected with other species of Eimeria for a similar lethal activity. Extracts were prepared from intestinal tissues of chickens infected with either E. acervulina, ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： McKenzie ME,Johnson J,Long PL

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant baculovirus-expressed hybrid protein containing epitopes for the C-terminal fragment of the Plasmodium falciparum precursor to the major merozoite surface antigens (PMMSA) and the tetrapeptide repeats of the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) was assessed for its immunogenicity. Murine MHC-II restriction of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lockyer MJ,Cooper H,Tite J,Rowan W,Crowe JS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of drug resistance by the present Houghton strain of Eimeria tenella to the quinolones, methyl benzoquate and buquinolate, was found to take place after a single experimental passage. The development of resistance was independent of drug selection pressure and showed cross resistance to other quinolone...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chapman HD

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma congolense (2 clones: ILNat3.1 and IL3000, and 4 stocks: IL2079, IL2466, IL3266 and CP-81) were continuously cultivated in vitro at 34-36 degrees C in the absence of feeder cell layers, using HMI-93 medium which was modified from Iscove's modified Dulbecco's MEM (Flow Laboratories, Irv...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hirumi H,Hirumi K

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea worm disease, dracunculiasis or dracontiasis, is an ancient disease with records going back over 4500 years, but until the beginning of the 20th century, little was known about its life cycle, particularly how humans became infected. In 1905, Robert Thomas Leiper was sent by the British colonial authorities to ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tayeh A,Cairncross S,Cox FEG

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American trypanosamiasis occurs in nature as a sylvatic cycle, where Trypanosoma cruzi interacts with wild triatomines and mammalian reservoirs, such as marsupials, rodents, armadillos and other animals. Due to difficulties in trying to isolate T. cruzi stocks from the sylvatic cycle, very few studies have been perfor...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fernandes O,Mangia RH,Lisboa CV,Pinho AP,Morel CM,Zingales B,Campbell DA,Jansen AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of resistance in mice to reinfection with Schistosoma mansoni was recorded during an early chronic infection, and compared with hepatic portal pathological and vascular changes. The latter were assessed using a microsphere injection technique. The degree of acquired resistance was directly dependent on...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： McHugh SM,Coulson PS,Wilson RA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium parvum is composed of multiple subtypes, which appear to be zoonotic or anthroponotic. Therefore, in order to understand the molecular epidemiology of this species and to control the zoonotic transmission, it is essential to identify the isolates at the subtype level. In the present study, 60.2% of 103...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Misic Z,Abe N

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin concepts of zooprophylaxis and the dilution effect originated with vector-borne diseases (malaria), were driven forward by studies on Lyme borreliosis and have now developed into the mantra "biodiversity protects against disease". The basic idea is that by diluting the assemblage of transmission-competent hos...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Randolph SE,Dobson AD

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Planning of the control of Plasmodium falciparum malaria leads to a need for models of malaria epidemiology that provide realistic quantitative prediction of likely epidemiological outcomes of a wide range of control strategies. Predictions of the effects of control often ignore medium- and long-term dynamics. The com...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Smith T,Maire N,Ross A,Penny M,Chitnis N,Schapira A,Studer A,Genton B,Lengeler C,Tediosi F,de Savigny D,Tanner M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and growth of Haemonchus contortus was studied in the stomach of the laboratory rabbit. Less than 1% of the ensheathed infective larvae given to rabbits became established, whereas after exsheathment in vitro under physiological conditions, 20-30% of the larvae administered developed to the 4th stage. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mapes CJ,Gallie GJ

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we envisage the host environment, not as a hostile one, since the schistosome thrives there, but as one in which the relationship between the two organisms consists of constant communication, through signalling mechanisms involving sense organs, surface glycocalyx, surface membrane and internal organs ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kusel JR,Al-Adhami BH,Doenhoff MJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological and ecological processes which govern the success of multiple-species co-infections are as yet unresolved. Here we investigated prior versus late residency within hosts, meaning which parasite contacts the host first, to determine if the outcomes of intra-host competition are altered. We infected a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lohr JN,Yin M,Wolinska J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00