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Role of innate lymphoid cells in type 1-dominated experimental Plasmodium berghei ANKA and type 2-dominated Litomosoides sigmodontis infection
(2021-10-27)
Malaria and filariasis remain among the biggest health problems in the tropics and subtropics, especially in Africa, and in the case of malaria among the ten most frequent causes of death. The parasites that cause malaria ......
Filarial infection and filarial antigen administration promotes glucose tolerance in diet-induced obese mice
(2015-11-06)
Excess of energy intake combined with reduced physical activity leads to accumulation and expansion of adipose tissue. Imbalance between adipose tissue expansion and oxygenation during a high fat diet results in adipocytes ...
Eosinophil Extracellular DNA Trap Cell Death (EETosis) occurs as a life-cycle stage-specific response to filariae
(2020-06-25)
Filarial nematodes represent a great burden of human morbidity causing diseases like onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. The lack of a vaccination and a short-term therapy with a macrofilaricidal effect hampers the ......
Acetylcholine mediates protective immune responses against the rodent filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis
(2022-02-22)
Tropical infectious diseases are caused by parasitic helminths, such as lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis (river blindness). Filariae have the ability to modulate the immune response of their host in order to be ......
Pattern Recognition Receptor and Vaccination Studies in the Murine Model of Lymphatic Filariasis
(2013-03-06)
Lymphatic filariasis is a parasitic helminth infection that affects approximately 120 million people. About one third of the infected individuals develop pathological manifestations, e.g. lymphedema. Causative agents of ......