Species or local environment, what determines the infection of rodents by Toxoplasma gondii?

abstract：:n order to investigate the dynamics of Septin4 (Sept4) expression and its function in the formation of fibrotic livers in mice infected with Schistosoma japonicum, we constructed the mouse model of S. japonicum egg-induced liver fibrosis for 24 weeks. Immunohistochemical staining, qRT-PCR and Western blot were used to...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duan YN,Qian HY,Qin YW,Zhu DD,He XX,Zhou Q,Yang YN,Bao J,Feng JR,Sun W,Chen JL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In theory, the age at which maturation occurs in parasitic nematodes is inversely related to pre-maturational mortality rate, and cross-species data on mammalian nematodes are consistent with this prediction. Immunity is a major source of parasite mortality and parasites stand to gain sizeable fitness benefits through...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Guinnee MA,Gemmill AW,Chan BH,Viney ME,Read AF

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current trend of antimony (Sb) unresponsiveness in the Indian subcontinent is a major impediment to effective chemotherapy of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Although contributory mechanisms studied in laboratory-raised Sb-R parasites include an up-regulation of drug efflux pumps and increased thiols, their role in c...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mandal G,Wyllie S,Singh N,Sundar S,Fairlamb AH,Chatterjee M

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Anti-trypanosomiasis vaccination still remains the best theoretical option in the fight against a disease that is continuously hovering between its wildlife reservoir and its reservoir in man and livestock. While antigenic variation of the parasite surface coat has been considered the major obstacle in the development...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Magez S,Caljon G,Tran T,Stijlemans B,Radwanska M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission success of Onchocerca volvulus is thought to be influenced by a variety of regulatory or density-dependent processes that act at various points in the two-host life-cycle. This paper examines one component of the life-cycle, namely, the ingestion of microfilariae by the simuliid vector, to assess the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Basáñez MG,Boussinesq M,Prod'hon J,Frontado H,Villamizar NJ,Medley GF,Anderson RM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the proteome of axenically grown Entamoeba histolytica parasites was explored by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE), employing a practical and effective procedure for the solubilization of E. histolytica proteins. Approximately 900 protein species in the pH range between 4 and 7 were detected by...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tolstrup J,Krause E,Tannich E,Bruchhaus I

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite. The objective of the present study was to examine the behaviour of Toxoplasma gondii RH Ankara strain tachyzoites in a cell culture environment. The study represents the first step in determining whether T. gondii RH Ankara strain tachyzoites, grown in...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Döskaya M,Degirmenci A,Ciçek C,Ak M,Korkmaz M,Gürüz Y,Uner A

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Schistosomiasis is a health problem in Brazil and the role of rodents in maintaining the schistosome life-cycle requires further clarification. The influence of Schistosoma mansoni on a population of Nectomys squamipes was studied by capture-recapture (1st phase, from June 1991 to November 1995) and removal (2nd phase...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： D'Andrea PS,Maroja LS,Gentile R,Cerqueira R,Maldonado Júnior A,Rey L

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Many different drug-resistant lines of rodent malaria are available as screening models. It is obligatory to screen new compounds for antimalarial activity against a series of resistant lines in order to identify a compound with potential for the treatment of multi-drug resistant (MDR) malaria infections. Instead of u...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tripathi R,Dhawan S,Dutta GP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common bird species were screened during May and June 2007 on Barbados for haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida) of the genera Haemoproteus and Plasmodium to determine whether the low parasite diversity reported in previous studies might have reflected limited sampling. PCR screening and DNA sequencing revealed a si...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maria L,Svensson E,Ricklefs RE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA-AFLP (cDNA-Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism)-based strategy has been used to identify levamisole (LEV) resistance markers in the nematode Haemonchus contortus. Transcript profiles of adult nematodes from two LEV-resistant and two susceptible isolates were compared. Among the 17 280 transcript-derived fragme...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Neveu C,Charvet C,Fauvin A,Cortet J,Castagnone-Sereno P,Cabaret J

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:The effect of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) hay consumption on the pathophysiology and local cellular responses of growing lambs during infection with Trichostrongylus colubriformis was investigated. Thirty-two lambs, 16 weeks of age, were allocated to 1 of 4 treatment groups (n=8) that were offered either grass (G...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ríos-de Alvarez L,Greer AW,Jackson F,Athanasiadou S,Kyriazakis I,Huntley JF

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amitochondriate parasitic protist Trichomonas vaginalis can utilize either glucose or maltose as carbon and energy source. The mechanisms of maltose utilization were explored with uptake experiments using radio-isotope labelled maltose in combination with the silicone-oil centrifugation technique and enzymatic ass...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： ter Kuile BH,Müller M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona are protozoan parasites with terrestrial definitive hosts, and both pathogens can cause fatal disease in a wide range of marine animals. Close monitoring of threatened southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) in California allowed for the diagnosis of dual transplacental tr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shapiro K,Miller MA,Packham AE,Aguilar B,Conrad PA,Vanwormer E,Murray MJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:We tested whether the prevalence of ticks can be predicted reliably from a simple epidemiological model that takes into account only mean abundance and its variance. We used data on the abundance and distribution of larvae and nymphs of 2 ixodid ticks parasitic on small mammals (Apodemus agrarius, Apodemus flavicollis...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stanko M,Krasnov BR,Miklisova D,Morand S

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Intraerythrocytic malaria parasites ingest the cytosol of their host cell and digest it inside their acid food vacuoles. Acidified (pH 4-5.5, 37 degrees C) human red blood cell lysates were used to simulate this process, measuring the denaturation of haemoglobin (Hb) and the release of iron, in the absence or presence...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gabay T,Krugliak M,Shalmiev G,Ginsburg H

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of BALB/c or MF1 mice with cyclosporin A (CsA) around the time of infection with Schistosoma mansoni conferred almost complete protection. The migration kinetics of L-[75Se]selenomethionine-labelled infective cercariae were investigated by compressed tissue autoradiography. Similar levels of skin penetration...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Munro GH,Brannan LR,Chappell LH,Thomson AW,McLaren DJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid experimental evidence indicates that EBA-175 is used as a ligand by the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite to bind to human RBC, via different binding processing fragments. Using synthetic peptides and specific receptor-ligand interaction methodology, we have identified 6 high-activity binding sequences from the EB...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rodriguez LE,Urquiza M,Ocampo M,Suarez J,Curtidor H,Guzman F,Vargas LE,Triviños M,Rosas M,Patarroyo ME

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against larval Taenia crassiceps has been shown to rely on T cells; however, the roles of the specific subsets of T cells during infection are not known. To investigate a possible role for gamma delta T cells, this study investigated larval infection in delta-chain knock-out C57BL/6 (deltaKO) and w...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Toenjes SA,Spolski RJ,Mooney KA,Kuhn RE

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Urinary schistosomiasis is an important source of human morbidity in Msambweni, Kenya, where the intermediate host snail, Bulinus nasutus is found in ponds and water pools. In the past, aquatic habitats in the area have been studied separately; however, recent collections of B. nasutus snails and shells indicated that...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Clennon JA,King CH,Muchiri EM,Kitron U

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promastigotes of Leishmania braziliensis panamensis absorbed the purines adenine, hypoxanthine, adenosine and inosine by a combination of diffusion and mediated components. When the uptake rates for these substrates were corrected for diffusion and compared, the purine bases adenine and hypoxanthine were transported a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hansen BD,Perez-Arbelo J,Walkony JF,Hendricks LD

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness in humans and one of several pathogens that cause the related veterinary disease Nagana. A complex co-evolution has occurred between these parasites and primates that led to the emergence of trypanosome-specific defences and counter-measures. The f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Capewell P,Cooper A,Clucas C,Weir W,Macleod A

更新日期：2015-02-01 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