Background Eugenol shows both antibacterial and antiparasitic activities, suggesting that it might be evaluated as an option for the treatment of praziquantel-resistant schistosome. Methods The in vitro activities of three eugenol derivatives (FB1, FB4 and FB9) on adult worms from Schistosoma mansoni we...
O presente estudo foi realizado com o objetivo de pesquisar a presença de determinadas lesöes coriorretinianas em indivíduos de área hiperendêmica de esquistossomose, e verificar a associaçäo destas com a infecçäo pelo Schistosoma mansoni e outras variáveis relacionadas. Foi selecionada uma amo...
El estudio de la quetotaxia cercariana de Schistosoma mansoni permitió: caracterizar una cepa del trematodo proveniente de Biomphalaria tenagophila naturalmente infectadas, procedentes de la ciudad de Taubaté (Estado de Sao Pulo, Brasil). El 27% de las cercarias estudiadas presentó un total de 12 papi...
Precocious adults from 2nd and 3rd instar larvae of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria were used to assess the competence of their fat body to synthesize DNA in response to a juvenile hormone analog (JHA), hydoprene. Autoradiographic studies show that JHA stimulates DNA synthesis since a significant...
The complex immunological relationships between schistosomes and their vertebrate hosts are considered to be conveniently divisible into four distinct, though interrelated categories: the parasite's vulnerability to, its evasion of, and its exploitation of the host's immune response, and its stimulation ...
In recent years, one of the most significant progress in the understanding of liver diseases was the demonstration that liver fibrosis is a dynamic process resulting from a balance between synthesis and degradation of several matrix components, collagen in particular. Thus, fibrosis has been found to be ...
