Molecular characterization of 5S ribosomal RNA genes and transcripts in the protozoan parasite Leishmania major.

abstract：:The effect of the parasitic swimbladder nematode, Anguillicola crassus, on the physiological status of wild European eels (Anguilla anguilla) was investigated during an 18 month survey (February 1995 until September 1996), and compared with that of wild uninfected eels collected over the same time-period. Despite the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kelly CE,Kennedy CR,Brown JA

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population of copepods (Cyclops strenuus abyssorum), with a naturally high prevalence of infection with procercoids of Diphyllobothrium spp., no difference in body size was found between infected and uninfected hosts. However, a significant reduction in the reproductive capacity of infected females was observed, ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pasternak AF,Huntingford FA,Crompton DW

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal infections by parasitic ciliates were studied in adult snails of Helix aspersa aspersa and Helix aspersa maxima collected from 2 mixed rearing system-based heliciculture farms located in Galicia (NW Spain). The occurrence of ciliates was also examined in slugs (Deroceras reticulatum) invading the greenhouses whe...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Segade P,Kher CP,Lynn DH,Iglesias R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for the isolation of sub-cellular fractions from bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei. The method leaves intact most of the nuclei, mitochondria and microbodies. All the fractions have been chemically characterized and tested for 10 enzymatic markers. About 5% of total cell protein was isol...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rovis L,Baekkeskov S

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-subunit antigen (native M(r) > 200 kDa, reduced M(r) 97-100 kDa) has been identified in homogenates of Trichinella spiralis larvae using affinity-purified rabbit anti-keyhole limpet haemocyanin (KLH) antibodies and its cross-reactivity with KLH was confirmed by competition blotting. The antigen was not present...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Modha J,Robertson WM,Kennedy MW,Kusel JR

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumstantial evidence suggests that the earlier detachment of Boophilus microplus larvae from highly resistant cattle follows the release of histamine at the attachment site. In vivo and in vitro experiments show that a proportion of the larvae will detach following injection or infusion of histamine. Other mediator...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kemp DH,Bourne A

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes during development in the elemental contents (Ca, P, K, Mg and S) of male and female Schistosoma mansoni from both mixed and single sex infections have been measured for the first time. In mixed infections, there is a significant difference between the calcium content of male and female worms; female worms hav...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shaw MK,Erasmus DA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake of radioactivity labelled purine bases and nucleosides by suspensions of Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma congolense in bicine buffer was determined at 37 degrees C. With T. brucei, the rate of uptake of adenosine was much greater than that of the other compounds tested, the uptake of which decreased in the o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： James DM,Born GV

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity in the bovine lungworm Dictyocaulus viviparus was examined using the xanthine-xanthine oxidase assay system and by non-denaturing PAGE followed by specific enzyme staining. High levels of activity were detected in excretory-secretory (ES) products of adult worms and ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Britton C,Knox DP,Kennedy MW

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the mechanism of action and compared the anthelmintic efficacy of cysteine proteinases from papaya, pineapple, fig, kiwi fruit and Egyptian milkweed in vitro using the rodent gastrointestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus. Within a 2 h incubation period, all the cysteine proteinases, with the exceptio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stepek G,Buttle DJ,Duce IR,Lowe A,Behnke JM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments to investigate the metabolism of glycine, L-glutamic acid and L-aspartic acid by Moniliformis moniliformis were carried out by incubating adult worms aerobically for 3 h at 37 degrees C in Tyrode's solution containing either [U-14C]glycine, L-[U-14C]glutamic acid, L-[U-14C]aspartic acid or L-[4-14C]asparti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ward PF,Crompton DW

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, a recombinant aminopeptidase P (rTgAPP) from Toxoplasma gondii was expressed in Escherichia coli to evaluate its enzyme parameters. The rTgAPP showed strong activity against a synthetic substrate for aminopeptidase P at pH 8·0 with a K m value of 0·255 µ m and a k cat value of 35·6 s-1. The overa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yang M,Zheng J,Jia H,Song M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entomopathogenic nematode infective juveniles are likely to encounter both uninfected and infected insects and host quality depends on the stage of the infection. We hypothesized that nematode response to infected hosts will change over the course of an infection. Here, we tested this hypothesis by focusing on the inf...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ramos-Rodríguez O,Campbell JF,Christen JM,Shapiro-Ilan DI,Lewis EE,Ramaswamy SB

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SIV rats infected with a high dose (50,000 oocysts) of Eimeria nieschulzi displayed clinical symptoms of coccidiosis such as diarrhoea (days 6 and 7 post-primary infection) and weight loss (days 6-8 post-primary infection) and were completely immune to challenge with a similar dose. The ability of rats to produce tumo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Smith NC,Ovington KS,Deplazes P,Eckert J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the prevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in patients with neurological disorders in Slovenia, serum/cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 348 suspected patients were collected between the beginning of January 2001 and the end of December 2012 and analysed serologically for the presence of anti-T. soliu...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Šoba B,Beović B,Lužnik Z,Skvarč M,Logar J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of schistosomulicidal activity of peritoneal macrophages by concanavalin A-stimulated supernatants from long-term T-cell clones and by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) was investigated in detail. Optimal conditions of in vitro macrophage activation by T-cell clone supernatants were established. Macrophages f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kubelka CF,Ruppel A,Krammer PH,Gemsa D

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increased availability of multilocus sequence data, the lack of concordance of gene trees estimated for independent loci has focused attention on both the biological processes producing the discord and the methodologies used to estimate phylogenetic relationships. What has emerged is a suite of new analytical...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Knowles LL,Klimov PB

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The statistical aggregation of parasites among hosts is often described empirically by the negative binomial (Poisson-gamma) distribution. Alternatively, the Poisson-lognormal model can be used. This has the advantage that it can be fitted as a generalized linear mixed model, thereby quantifying the sources of aggrega...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Elston DA,Moss R,Boulinier T,Arrowsmith C,Lambin X

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past and more recent research has examined the ultrastructure, metabolism, cell biology, genomics and post-genomics of schistosome schistosomula. These areas are considered and discussed in this review with particular emphasis on (1) the early migration phases through the host, (2) interaction of the host immune respo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gobert GN,Chai M,McManus DP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:Clinical isolates from 3 microsporidia species, Encephalitozoon intestinalis and Encephalitozoon hellem, and the insect parasite Anncaliia (Brachiola, Nosema) algerae, were used in spore germination and enterocyte-like (C2Bbe1) cell infection assays to determine the effect of a panel of antimicrobial peptides. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Leitch GJ,Ceballos C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population genetics of multi-host pathogens offers great potential for the understanding of their complex epidemiology but care must be taken to ensure that the sampling procedure does not bias estimates of population indices. The transfer of material to laboratory passage, in particular, runs the risk of bottleneckin...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shrivastava J,Gower CM,Balolong E Jr,Wang TP,Qian BZ,Webster JP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors interacting with terminal sugars as ligands are involved in the binding of Leishmania donovani promastigotes to the macrophage surface and their subsequent internalization. Mannose and glucose are specifically involved in the binding process. Decreased binding occurs to macrophages already infected with L. d...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dutta M,Bandyopadhyay R,Basu MK

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of genetic methods allows the delineation of species boundaries, especially in organisms where morphological characters are not reliable to differentiate species. However, few empirical studies have used these tools to delineate species among parasitic metazoans. Here we investigate the species ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pérez-Ponce DE León G,García-Varela M,Pinacho-Pinacho CD,Sereno-Uribe AL,Poulin R

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The World Health Organization announced in November 2014 at the fourth international meeting on 'the control of neglected zoonotic diseases - from advocacy to action', that intervention tools for eliminating Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis (TSTC) are in place. The aim of this work was to elucidate theoretical ou...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Johansen MV,Trevisan C,Gabriël S,Magnussen P,Braae UC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bat flies (Streblidae) are diverse, obligate blood-feeding insects and probably the most conspicuous ectoparasites of bats. They show preferences for specific body regions on their host bat, which are reflected in behavioural characteristics. In this study, we corroborate the categorization of bat flies into three eco...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hiller T,Honner B,Page RA,Tschapka M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple infections, those by more than one parasite in the same erythrocyte, may be adaptive for the malarial parasite as a means to ensure fertility. Alternatively they may simply be the consequence of a non-adaptive process forcing several parasites to compete for resources in one host cell. Avian hosts infected wi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Martínez-de la Puente J,Merino S,Tomás G,Moreno J,Morales J,Lobato E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex life-cycles of parasitic animals are a product of exploiting the process of development to generate organisms with different biological potentials within a species. Successive stages of the parasite adapt to functions such as host invasion and transmission, and to the colonization of a variety of niches, o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bianco AE,Maizels RM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultrastructural study has been performed on radiation-attenuated parasites fixed in situ during their extended stay in the lungs. At day 7 post-infection all parasites were located within blood vessels. In contrast to normally migrating parasites, at days 13 and 21 post-infection the majority of radiation-attenuate...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mastin A,Bickle QD,Wilson RA

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multicopy mini-exon-derived RNA (med RNA) locus of Leishmania donovani was enzymatically amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The major 180 bp PCR product contained conserved med RNA gene sequences flanking the variable intergenic spacer from the med RNA gene tandem repeat. The oligonucleotide primers...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hassan MQ,Ghosh A,Ghosh SS,Gupta M,Basu D,Mallik KK,Adhya S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematophagous fungi are used in the biological control of the parasitic helminths of animals and plants. The association of ovicidal and predator nematophagous fungi may present a complementary and increased action on the biological control of helminths. Joint growth compatibility and predation tests were carried out ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Vieira ÍS,Oliveira IC,Campos AK,Araújo JV

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00