Investigating parasites in three dimensions: trends in volume microscopy

C Cooper, RCA Thompson, PL Clode - Trends in parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
To best understand parasite, host, and vector morphologies, host–parasite interactions, and
to develop new drug and vaccine targets, structural data should, ideally, be obtained and …

Chagas disease: Current view of an ancient and global chemotherapy challenge

J Martín-Escolano, E Medina-Carmona… - ACS Infectious …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease and a global public health issue. In terms of
treatment, no progress has been made since the 1960s, when benznidazole and nifurtimox …

Cell‐to‐cell transfer of Leishmania amazonensis amastigotes is mediated by immunomodulatory LAMP‐rich parasitophorous extrusions

F Real, PTV Florentino, LC Reis… - Cellular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The last step of L eishmania intracellular life cycle is the egress of amastigotes from the host
cell and their uptake by adjacent cells. Using multidimensional live imaging of long‐term …

Imaging flow cytometry analysis of intracellular pathogens

V Haridas, S Ranjbar, IA Vorobjev, AE Goldfeld… - Methods, 2017 - Elsevier
Imaging flow cytometry has been applied to address questions in infection biology, in
particular, infections induced by intracellular pathogens. This methodology, which utilizes …

A new era for Chagas disease drug discovery?

M Keenan, JH Chaplin - Progress in medicinal chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent clinical trials investigating treatment of chronic indeterminate Chagas disease with
two re-purposed azole anti-fungal drugs, posaconazole and ravuconazole, revealed their …

Everybody needs sphingolipids, right! Mining for new drug targets in protozoan sphingolipid biosynthesis

JGM Mina, PW Denny - Parasitology, 2018 - cambridge.org
Sphingolipids (SLs) are an integral part of all eukaryotic cellular membranes. In addition,
they have indispensable functions as signalling molecules controlling a myriad of cellular …

Antiparasitic natural products

FMD Ismail, L Nahar, KY Zhang, SD Sarker - Annual Reports in Medicinal …, 2020 - Elsevier
An organism that lives on, or within, a host organism and obtains its food from, or at the
expense of its host can be described as a parasite. Antiparasitics are medications that are …

Trypanosoma cruzi: single cell live imaging inside infected tissues

BL Ferreira, CM Orikaza, EM Cordero… - Cellular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although imaging the live Trypanosoma cruzi parasite is a routine technique in most
laboratories, identification of the parasite in infected tissues and organs has been hindered …

Untangling the Dynamics of B Cell-Parasite Interaction in Leishmania Donovani Infection: Implications for Polyclonal B Cell Activation

T Stögerer - 2024 - espace.inrs.ca
Bien que les cellules B et leur rôle dans l'immunité humorale soient essentiels à la défense
immunitaire contre de nombreuses infections, au cours de certaines maladies, les cellules B …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular detection of Trypanosoma cruzi from formalin fixed placentas and fetuses of Wistar rats

CMB Costa, LM Pereira, JC Prado Júnior… - Matters, 2019 - repositorio.usp.br
Chagas disease is a tropical disease, endemic of the Americas and caused by the
protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. The classic transmission route of T. cruzi is based on the …