Schistosomiasis is a public health problem in many developing countries, and Schistosoma mansoni is the most widespread species of the causative trematode parasite 1. Parasite eggs laid in the hepatic ...

Tegumental membranes of Schistosoma mansoni were disrupted by 0.2% Triton X-100 in Tris-maleate buffered/Kreb-Ringer's solution. Subsequent differential centrifugation of the disruption solution at ...

Similar to other metazoan pathogens, Schistosoma mansoni undergoes transcriptional and developmental regulation during its complex lifecycle and host interactions. DNA methylation as a mechanism to ...

The worms that cause schistosomiasis (Schistosoma mansoni) are unusual in several ways, especially the fact that male and female adults must stay paired together throughout their lives for ...

Schistosoma mansoni and its close relatives are parasitic flatworms that affect millions worldwide and kill an estimated 250,000 people a year. A study identifies a new part of the molecular pathway ...

Scientists have developed a way to produce a protein antigen that may be useful as vaccine for schistosomiasis – a parasitic disease that infects millions of people, mostly in tropical and subtropical ...

Three antimony compounds, 2-hydroxy-4-methylol-4,5, dihydro-1,3,2, dithiastibiole, butyl antimonyl gallate (fed orally) and tri-(n-dodecylmercapto)-santimonious acid (injected intraperitoneally in ...

Researchers in Brazil have used an innovative technique in molecular biology to identify targets for candidate vaccines against Schistosoma mansoni, the parasite that causes schistosomiasis.

INFESTATION by Schistosoma mansoni is generally known to cause gastrointestinal symptoms and, not infrequently, bilharzial hepatic fibrosis, which may lead to portal hypertension of intrahepatic ...

Distance from the anal verge as an indirect measure to predict response to anti-EGFR therapy in left side metastatic colon cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting I.

PATIENTS suffering from schistosomiasis have rarely been found on the North American continent. However, the large number of infestations known to have occurred in members of the Armed Forces ...

Management of breast cancer in a small Charity Hospital Cancer Center in Brazil: Ten years of a single institution´s experience. Characteristics, treatment patterns and safety events from 4 cohorts of ...