Experimental test of host specificity in a behaviour-modifying trematode.

abstract：:Feulgen-pararosaniline (SO2) staining was performed on stages in the life-cycle of Isospora (Toxoplasma) gondii, Eimeria tenella, Sarcocystis cruzi and Plasmodium berghei. The fluorescence emission of the stained DNA in nuclei of these stages was examined and compared with absorption microscopy measurements at 560 nm ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cornelissen AW,Overdulve JP,Van der Ploeg M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health significance of hookworm disease is briefly reviewed. The latest evidence confirms that blood loss caused by the worms' feeding activity in the gut is a contributing factor in the development of poor iron status leading to iron-deficiency anaemia. The World Health Organization has identified adolesce...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crompton DW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suspected that host-parasite interactions are influenced by climatic oscillations such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). However, the effects of climatic oscillations on host-parasite interactions have never been investigated. A long-term (1982-1999) dataset of the host snail Lymnaea stagnalis and tremato...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Doi H,Yurlova NI

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-erythrocytic stages of malaria parasites can alter the surface of their host cells and release toxins which induce the production of cytokines, which in turn can up- or down-regulate the expression of adhesion receptors on the surface of microvascular endothelial cells. New adhesion receptors on endothelial cell...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hommel M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a metastrongyloid nematode found widely in the Asia-Pacific region, and the aetiological agent of angiostrongyliasis; a disease characterized by eosinophilic meningitis. Rattus rats are definitive hosts of A. cantonensis, while intermediate hosts include terrestrial and aquatic molluscs....

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barratt J,Chan D,Sandaradura I,Malik R,Spielman D,Lee R,Marriott D,Harkness J,Ellis J,Stark D

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of appearance of specific lytic activity against more than 20 variable antigen types (VATs) of Trypanosoma vivax in the serum of 27 animals belonging to 5 species has been examined. For each host species there was a characteristic course of infection, with differences in height and duration of parasitaemi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barry JD

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levamisole (Lms) is an anthelminthic drug with immunomodulatory activity. Chagas disease (CD) is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and there is very low access to the drugs available, benznidazole (Bz) and nifurtimox, both far from ideal. In a drug-repurposing strategy to test potential activity as antiparasitic and immunom...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rocha Simões-Silva M,Brandão Peres R,Britto C,Machado Cascabulho C,de Melo Oliveira G,Nefertiti da Gama A,França da Silva C,Lima da Costa K,Finamore Araújo P,Diego de Souza Campos J,Meuser Batista M,Cristina Demarque K,da Cruz Mo

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:Conventional mice and congenitally athymic, nude mice were infected with 20 metacercariae of the intestinal trematode Echinostoma revolutum. The sequential events in the pathological changes in the intestine were studied at different intervals post-infection. By day 11 onwards the conventional mice displayed dilatatio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bindseil E,Christensen NO

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA barcoding is now a common tool in parasitology and epidemiology, which require good methods for identification not only of parasites and pathogens but vectors and reservoirs. This special issue presents some advances and challenges in barcoding of microbes, parasites, and their vectors and reservoirs. DNA barcodin...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Morand S

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:A distinct 8 kDa calcium-binding protein (CaBP) is preferentially expressed at the cercarial stage during the life-cycle of the schistosome. Available data indicate that this CaBP may be associated with tissue/organ remodelling (involving protein degradation and synthesis of new proteins) during transformation of the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ram D,Ziv E,Lantner F,Schechter I

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus absorb the L-amino acids proline, methionine, leucine, alanine, serine, phenylalanine, lysine and glutamic acid by a combination of mediated transport and diffusion. All eight amino acids were accumulated against a concentration gradient. Comparison of Kt and Vmax values sugges...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jeffs SA,Arme C

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:Glycans at the surface of adult Schistosoma mansoni were investigated with gold-labelled lectins. The fragile complex of the glycans with the outer membranes could be preserved for electron microscopy by avoiding extensive pre-fixation with aldehydes and by introducing osmium-ferrocyanide as a membrane fixative. Male ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schmidt J

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Small RNAs are important regulators of gene expression. They were first identified in Caenorhabditis elegans, but it is now apparent that the main small RNA silencing pathways are functionally conserved across diverse organisms. Availability of genome data for an increasing number of parasitic nematodes has enabled bi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Britton C,Laing R,Devaney E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serine protease was purified 942-fold from culture supernatant of L. amazonensis promastigotes using (NH4)2SO4 precipitation followed by affinity chromatography on aprotinin-agarose and continuous elution electrophoresis by Prep Cell, yielding a total recovery of 61%. The molecular mass of the active enzyme estimate...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Silva-Lopez RE,Coelho MG,De Simone SG

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dipstick dot ELISA for detection of Taenia-specific coproantigens was developed. The test was based on a sandwich ELISA using antibodies raised against adult Taenia solium. Antibodies were absorbed to nitrocellulose paper previously adhered to acetate plastic to form dipsticks. Once blocked with 5% skimmed milk and ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Allan JC,Mencos F,Garcia-Noval J,Sarti E,Flisser A,Wang Y,Liu D,Craig PS

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxaemia has been described in cases of Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), but it is unclear if this phenomenon influences inflammatory pathology either in the periphery or central nervous system (CNS). We studied endotoxin concentrations in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesie...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maclean L,Aboubaker EA,Kennedy PG,Sternberg JM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were carried out in which calves reared parasite-free were infected with a single dose of 3rd-stage larvae of Cooperia oncophora. In the first experiment the calves received 20 000 or 200 000 infective larvae and they were autopsied 28 or 56 days after the infection. In the second experiment the doses ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Borgsteede FH,Hendriks J

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of parasites as biological tags to discriminate among marine fish stocks has become a widely accepted method in fisheries management. Here, we first link this approach to its unstated ecological foundation, the decay in the similarity of the species composition of assemblages as a function of increasing distan...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Poulin R,Kamiya T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of metalloprotease activities during metacyclogenesis of a series of strains and clones of Trypanosoma cruzi was investigated using SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with a range of different co-polymerized proteolytic substrates. A complex pattern of metalloprotease expression, with considerable quant...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lowndes CM,Bonaldo MC,Thomaz N,Goldenberg S

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prediction of the hypothesis of Wilson (1977, 1980 a, b) to account for larval migration of homogonic Strongyloides ratti in the host is that the pattern of invasion of the mammary gland of a lactating rat will be quantitatively similar on both sides and independent of the point of entry into the body. Twenty-one su...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wilson PA,Simpson NE

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships among Trypanosoma rangeli isolates from man, wild mammals and triatomine bugs from widespread geographical origin were inferred by comparison of the small subunit of ribosomal gene sequences. The phylogenetic trees indicated that the subgenus Herpetosoma is polyphyletic and strongly supporte...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Da Silva FM,Noyes H,Campaner M,Junqueira AC,Coura JR,Añez N,Shaw JJ,Stevens JR,Teixeira MM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of glucose by Acanthocheilonema viteae was studied in vitro. The process was selective for the D-isomer and saturatable with a Km of 2 mM. The rate of glucose transport/utilization was inhibited by 2-deoxyglucose, mannose, 5-thioglucose and dipyridamole but, unlike mammalian systems, was not impaired by cyt...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hayes DJ,Selwood DL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the segregation of an intracellular microsporidian parasite during host cell division. A time-course experiment was carried out to examine the distribution of parasites relative to host chromosomal DNA via light and electron microscopy. Fluorescent light microscopy and EM studies showed that the parasi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Terry RS,Dunn AM,Smith JE

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete small subunit ribosomal RNA (srRNA) gene of Theileria parva was cloned and sequenced. Two primers were designed which permitted the specific amplification of part of the Theileria srRNA gene from Theileria-infected cell line samples which were predominantly (> 95%) bovine DNA. The sequence of the central ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Allsopp BA,Baylis HA,Allsopp MT,Cavalier-Smith T,Bishop RP,Carrington DM,Sohanpal B,Spooner P

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：:RNA extracted from purified parasites of Plasmodium knowlesi was fractionated using agarose gel electrophoresis. Preparations from para sites grown both in vivo and in vitro contained species of RNA with sedimentation coefficients of 4-0S, 5-0S, 16-6S, 24-2S, 31-4S, 38-0S and 48-3S. There was less RNA present in paras...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Trigg PI,Shakespeare PG,Burt SJ,Kyd SI

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00