As long-term pool feeders, ticks have developed myriad strategies to remain discreetly but
solidly attached to their hosts for the duration of their blood meal. The critical biological …

Ticks require blood meal to complete development and reproduction. Multifunctional tick
salivary glands play a pivotal role in tick feeding and transmission of pathogens. Tick …

This review addresses the problems insects and ticks face to feed on blood and the
solutions these invertebrates engender to overcome these obstacles, including a …

When attempting to feed on their hosts, ticks face the problem of host hemostasis (the
vertebrate mechanisms that prevent blood loss), inflammation (that can produce itching or …

There is now abundant evidence that vaccination with defined protein antigens is able to
induce significant immunity to tick infestation. In a limited number of cases, this immunity has …

In the early 70s, while studying calcium binding proteins of muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum,
MacLennan's group at the University of Toronto identified and characterized several soluble …

Ticks are of vast medical and veterinary public health importance due to direct damage
caused by feeding and their roles in transmitting well known and emerging infectious …

Tick sialome is comprised of a rich cocktail of bioactive molecules that function as a tool to
disarm host immunity, assist blood-feeding, and play a vibrant role in pathogen …

Tick vaccines derived from Bm86, a midgut membrane‐bound protein of the cattle tick,
Boophilus microplus, are currently the only commercially available ectoparasite vaccines …

Salivary glands of blood-sucking arthropods contain a variety of compounds that prevent
platelet and clotting functions and modify inflammatory and immunological reactions in the …