The serotoninergic, cholinergic and peptidergic components of the nervous system in the monogenean parasite, Diclidophora merlangi: a cytochemical study.

abstract：:Heparin-binding proteins (HBPs) play a key role in Trypanosoma cruzi-host cell interactions. HBPs recognize heparan sulfate (HS) at the host cell surface and are able to induce the cytoadherence and invasion of this parasite. Herein, we analysed the biochemical properties of the HBPs and also evaluated the expression ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Oliveira FO Jr,Alves CR,Silva FS,Côrtes LM,Toma L,Bouças RI,Aguilar T,Nader HB,Pereira MC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from goats and cattle that were infected with two Trypanosoma vivax clones (ILDat 1.2 and ILDat 2.1) derived from different stocks were analysed for antibody activity against the variable surface glycoproteins (VSGs) of the infecting clones by enzyme-linked immune assays (ELISA) and immune lysis. To obtain purifi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Vos GJ,Gardiner PR

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas infection is a major endemic disease affecting Latin American countries. The persistence of Trypanosoma cruzi generates a chronic inflammatory reactivity that induces an immune response directed to the host's tissues. The effectiveness of the treatment in the chronic phase is still unsatisfactory due, amongst o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fauro R,Lo Presti S,Bazan C,Baez A,Strauss M,Triquell F,Cremonezzi D,Negrete OS,Willhuber GC,Paglini-Oliva P,Rivarola HW

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Diseases caused by viruses are a constant and major problem for livestock production world wide. The diseases range from highly contagious acute forms with high mortality, to chronic disabling diseases with an insidious effect on production. Such diseases cannot be regarded as static in nature due to the highly mutabl...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crowther JR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:The domestic dog's involvement with different members of the Trypanosomatidae family has been the focus of several studies due to this animal's close proximity to man. Recently this animal has been infected by a new Trypanosoma species (T. caninum), described in Rio de Janeiro and 19 similar isolates were later...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： De S Pinto AG,Schubach TM,Figueiredo FB,Baptista C,Fagundes A,Da S Barros JH,De Paula CC,Toma HK,Madeira MF

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve populations of bats were examined to determine the extent of interspecific associations in determining the species richness of intestinal helminth infracommunities. The pool of helminth species which was available to individual bats ranged from 2 to 21. The 'summed binomial' distribution was determined to under...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lotz JM,Font WF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission-blocking monoclonal antibody 13.1, which recognizes the ookinete surface antigen Pbs21 of Plasmodium berghei, and an IgG2a isotype control antibody 26.37 were purified by caprylic acid and ammonium sulphate precipitation. Fab fragments were prepared by papain digestion. IgG but not Fab from antibody 1...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ranawaka GR,Alejo-Blanco AR,Sinden RE

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of more than 20 helminths have now been sequenced. Here we perform a meta-analysis of all sequenced genomes of nematodes and Platyhelminthes, and attempt to address the question of what are the defining characteristics of helminth genomes. We find that parasitic worms lack systems for surface antigenic var...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zarowiecki M,Berriman M

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Costa Rica is near malaria elimination. This achievement has followed shifts in malaria health policy. Here, we evaluate the impacts that different health policies have had on malaria transmission in Costa Rica from 1913 to 2018. We identified regime shifts and used regression models to measure the impact of different...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chaves LF,Ramírez Rojas M,Prado M,Garcés JL,Salas Peraza D,Marín Rodríguez R

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY Leishmania are protozoan parasites spread by a sandfly insect vector and causing a spectrum of diseases collectively known as leishmaniasis. The disease is a significant health problem in many parts of the world, resulting in an estimated 1·3 million new cases and 30 000 deaths annually. Current treatment is b...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kedzierski L,Evans KJ

更新日期：2014-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The behaviour and development of Elasmosoma sp., near pergandei Ashm. (Neoneurinae: Braconidae: Hymenoptera), a parasite of the ant, Formica obscuriventris clivia Creighton, was studied in a coastal sand dune habitat in central Oregon over a 2-year period. Female wasps oviposited into the abdomen of major worker ants ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Poinar G Jr

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitellogenin synthesis by the fat body has been monitored using in vitro culture and immunoprecipitation. This system was found to be efficient for measuring vitellogenin production in both non-infected Tenebrio molitor and those infected with Hymenolepis diminuta. In fat bodies from infected beetles, vitellogenin pro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Webb TJ,Hurd H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice were characterized as more resistant to infection with Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda) than C57BL/6 mice based on lower establishment and survival during a primary infection and stronger protection induced by an immunizing regime. It was hypothesized, therefore, that C57BL/6 mice would be more heavily...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Scott ME

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A delayed gamma distribution satisfactorily described the distribution of times to hatching of Ostertagia circumcincta eggs incubated in 0.1% saline at temperatures between 6 and 20 degrees C. Below 6 degree C hatching of eggs was extremely variable. The relationship between rates of development and temperature within...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Young RR,Anderson N,Overend D,Tweedie RL,Malafant KW,Preston GA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) produced by cytokine-activated macrophages is reported to be cytotoxic against the helminth Schistosoma mansoni, although this is a controversial issue. Previous work in our laboratory identified a fraction of S. mansoni soluble adult worm antigenic preparation (SWAP), named PIII, able to elicit sign...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Oliveira DM,Silva-Teixeira DN,Gustavson S,Oliveira SM,Goes AM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a high prevalence zoonosis among the rural population of Tacuarembó (Uruguay). The correlation between serological data and the incidence of risk factors was studied in a survey carried out in 1998 among rural communities where 480 individuals were examined by means of abdominal sonograph...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hernández A,Cardozo G,Dematteis S,Baz A,Trias N,Nuñez H,Barragué A,López L,Fuentes J,López O,Ferreira C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of the patterns and processes underlying the structure of parasite communities has progressed significantly in the last years; however, much of the evidence available to date on parasite community comes from unconfirmed studies. In this study the ectoparasite communities of 2 related rockfishes, Seba...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： González MT,Oliva ME

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biozzi mice of Selections 1 and 3, each exhibiting either high- or low-antibody responses to a wide range of antigens, were exposed to primary, secondary and tertiary infections of the nematode, Nematospiroides dubius. The course of these infections was followed by monitoring egg output and by examination of the worm ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jenkins DC,Carrington TS

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic relationship of 5 genera, i.e. Diplozoon Nordmann, 1832, Paradiplozoon Achmerov, 1974, Inustiatus Khotenovsky, 1978, Sindiplozoon Khotenovsky, 1981, and Eudiplozoon Khotenovsky, 1985 in the subfamily Diplozoinae Palombi, 1949 (Monogenea, Polyopisthocotylea) was inferred from rDNA ITS-2 region using ne...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gao Q,X Chen M,Yao WJ,Gao Y,Song Y,Wang GT,Wang MX,Nie P

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Philasterides dicentrarchi is a histophagous ciliate causing systemic scuticociliatosis in cultured turbot. This study demonstrates that turbot which survive this disease have serum antibodies that recognize ciliary antigens of this ciliate in ELISA and immobilize/agglutinate the ciliate in vitro. Mouse sera raised ag...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Iglesias R,Paramá A,Alvarez MF,Leiro J,Ubeira FM,Sanmartín ML

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the homogeneity of 18S sequences within Trypanosoma cruzi, riboprint profiles were separated by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE). Upon interpretation of melting curves of fragments within a riboprint profile, there appeared to be two 18S sequence types within each stock examined. Two similar typ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stothard JR,Frame IA,Carrasco HJ,Miles MA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Strongyloides ratti-infected rats, 2 peaks of egg excretion were observed; a large one with maximum egg production on days 7-8 of infection and a small more inconspicuous one around day 25. The second peak, which had been ignored in most studies, was produced by adults in the caecum and the colon. The adults were l...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kimura E,Shintoku Y,Kadosaka T,Fujiwara M,Kondo S,Itoh M

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparatus for artificial feeding of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus nymphae was modified to improve feeding performance. Heparinized blood was supplied above a treated artificial membrane while the ticks attached below on its undersurface. The feeding apparatus was incubated at 37 degrees C in an atmosphere of 3% CO2 ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Waladde SM,Young AS,Mwaura SN,Njihia GN,Mwakima FN

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exponential decay in community similarity as a function of distance is a ubiquitous phenomenon in biogeography. Thus, for parasite communities, pairwise similarity decreases with increasing geographical distance between host populations. This biogeographical rule should also apply along other dimensions characterizing...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Poulin R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine fisheries in South American Atlantic coasts (SAAC) are threatened by overfishing and under serious risk of collapsing. The SAAC comprises a diversity of environments, possesses a complex oceanography and harbours a vast biodiversity that provide an enormous potential for using parasites as biological tags ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Timi JT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the phenothiazine, Stelazine, on Hymenolepis diminuta were investigated. The cestode was incubated for 10 min at 37 degrees C with 1 mM trifluoperazine, in the presence and absence of Ca2+. Assay of brush border enzymes showed that drug treatment lowered the activities of alkaline phosphatase, Ca2+-ATP'...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hipkiss JB,Skinner A,Branford White CJ

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural investigations (SEM, TEM) combined with lectin-binding analysis, have revealed concurrent modifications in tegumentary structure and surface glycoconjugates during the establishment and differentiation of Echinococcus multilocularis metacestodes in jirds. The laminated layer, which is amorphous and ric...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Leducq R,Gabrion C

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00