Distinctive histopathology and modulation of cytokine production during oral and intraperitoneal Trypanosoma cruzi Y strain infection.

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：: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：:An electron microscopical examination has been made of the fine structure and disposition of pancreatic polypeptide immunoreactive cells associated with the egg-forming apparatus in Diclidophora merlangi. The cell bodies are positioned in the parenchyma surrounding the ootype and taper to axon-like processes that exte...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Halton DW,Brennan GP,Maule AG,Shaw C,Johnston CF,Fairweather I

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:Early in the history of schistosomiasis research, children under 5 years of age were known to be infected. Although this problem was recognized over 100 years ago, insufficient action has been taken to address this issue. Under current policy, such infected children only receive their first antiparasitic treatment (pr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bustinduy AL,Wright S,Joekes EC,Kabatereine NB,Reinhard-Rupp J,King CH,Stothard JR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide economic impact of Neospora caninum infection has caused the development of effective vaccines to become one of the main goals in the field of neosporosis research. In this study, the protection conferred by antigens from inactivated whole tachyzoites (TZ) and a tachyzoite-bradyzoite mixture (TZ-BZ) of N...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rojo-Montejo S,Collantes-Fernández E,Rodríguez-Marcos S,Pérez-Zaballos F,López-Pérez I,Prenafeta A,Ortega-Mora LM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular approach was used to genetically characterize 5 species (Aoruroides queenslandensis, Blattophila sphaerolaima, Cordonicola gibsoni, Desmicola ornata and Leidynemella fusiformis) belonging to the superfamily Thelastomatoidea (Nematoda: Oxyurida), a group of pinworms that parasitizes terrestrial arthropods. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jex AR,Hu M,Rose HA,Schneider M,Cribb TH,Gasser RB

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Flow cytometric analysis of the binucleated protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis gave DNA histograms with a broad G1 peak and a definable G2 + M peak with twice the DNA content of G1. Twenty-four hour treatment with metronidazole arrested cell cycle progression of susceptible trophozoites in the G2 + M phase, but h...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hoyne GF,Boreham PF,Parsons PG,Ward C,Biggs B

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:Infectious agents have considerable potential to regulate or constrain the population growth of vertebrate hosts in natural habitats. A broad theoretical framework provides many insights into how the biology of the parasite and the demography of the host interact to determine this impact. It may manifest itself as a s...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Anderson RM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites can have a wide range of pathophysiological effects on the host. This review describes those associated with some parasites of major importance in man and animals. Haemoprotozoan diseases such as trypanosomiasis and malaria are primarily associated with anaemia. Such anaemias have a complex aetiology involvi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Holmes PH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tegumental surface of Schistosoma mansoni sporocysts is the site of both nutritive and immunological interactions with haemolymph cells and plasma of Biomphalaria glabrata, the schistosome intermediate host. Within minutes of being placed in host plasma, sporocysts acquire plasma antigens, and within 3 h host plas...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bayne CJ,Loker ES,Yui MA

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：: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：: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：:We have recently identified 2 surface proteins in Entamoeba histolytica as intermediate subunits of galactose- and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine-inhibitable lectin (EhIgl1 and EhIgl2); these proteins both contain multiple CXXC motifs. Here, we report the molecular characterization of the corresponding proteins in Entamoeba...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tachibana H,Cheng XJ,Kobayashi S,Okada Y,Itoh J,Takeuchi T

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statistical method that analyses correlation structures in families to delineate the contribution of genetic, household and environmental factors on clustering of infection, has been applied to data collected in an area endemic for brugian filariasis in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Infection was assessed both by micro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wahyuni S,Houwing-Duistermaat JJ,Syafruddin,Supali T,Yazdanbakhsh M,Sartono E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of intermediate hosts with eggs of taeniid parasites results in a larval infestation known as cysticercosis. A number of studies have indicated that cysticercosis is associated with immunosuppression, although little is known about the mechanisms involved. In the present study, mice infected with the larvae ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Villa OF,Kuhn RE

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of facilities in which customers make contact with cats before eating and drinking, called 'cat cafés', has recently increased in Tokyo, Japan. In a survey to clarify the possibility of zoonotic transmission in Giardia duodenalis, the infection rates of G. duodenalis in 321 stool samples of cats from 16 cat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Suzuki J,Murata R,Kobayashi S,Sadamasu K,Kai A,Takeuchi T

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Plant cysteine proteinases (CPs) from Carica papaya kill parasitic and free-living nematodes in vitro by hydrolysis of the worm cuticle, a mechanism that is different to all commercially available synthetic anthelmintics. We have developed a cheap and effective, rapid-throughput Caenorhabditis elegans-based assay for ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Phiri AM,DE Pomerai DI,Buttle DJ,Behnke JM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serial passage of 3 strains of Eimeria from the chicken in embryonating turkey embryos is reported here. All 3 strains increased their reproduction in turkey embryos; reproduction being equal to or better than the same lines maintained in chicken embryos. Pathogenicity and immunogenicity trials conducted in chicke...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kogut MH,Gore TC,Long PL

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma mansoni depends for its survival on glycolysis. Two glycolytic enzymes, glyceraldehyde-3P-dehydrogenase and triose-phosphate dehydrogenase, found in both the adult and schistosomular tegument, have been reported to confer partial protection against cercarial infection. This paper describes the immunogenic ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mansour JM,McCrossan MV,Bickle QD,Mansour TE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eggs of Neoheterocotyle rhinobatidis, Troglocephalus rhinobatidis and Merizocotyle icopae (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) from the shovelnose ray Rhinobatos typus (Rhinobatidae) have a distinct hatching pattern linked to light periodicity. Larvae of these 3 monogenean species emerge only during daylight when exposed to nat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chisholm LA,Whittington ID

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular, peroral, intraperitoneal, intramuscular, and subcutaneous inoculation of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice with spores of the human isolate (CDC: V404) of Brachiola algerae (syn. Nosema algerae) (Phylum Microspora) revealed that the microsporidium develops in viscera of the immunodeficient mouse host...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Koudela B,Visvesvara GS,Moura H,Vávra J

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:Infections with Haemonchus contortus are a major constraint on ruminant health world-wide. Young lambs are very sensitive to Haemonchus infection. Older lambs and sheep acquire immunity after a continuous or seasonal exposure to the parasite. The mechanisms underlying immunity are still not completely understood. Anti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schallig HD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model for the study of granuloma formation in the liver is described. Rats received an injection of 20,000 Schistosoma mansoni eggs in the portal vein and granuloma formation was evaluated at 3, 5 and 7 weeks post-injection. Liver collagen was estimated at the same time and serum procollagen III peptide, a marke...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Van Gool J,Van Tiel D,Doenhoff MJ,Van Vugt H

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which Giardia lamblia exerts its pathogenicity is likely to be multifactorial. A 58 kDa enterotoxin was purified and characterized from the excretory-secretory product (ESP) of the parasite (Kaur et al. 2001). In the present study an attempt has been made to elucidate the mechanism of action of the ES...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shant J,Ghosh S,Bhattacharyya S,Ganguly NK,Majumdar S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00