liver fluke
A study of tribendimidine effects in vitro and in vivo on the liver fluke Opisthorchis felineus
... The liver fluke Opisthorchis felineus is a member of the triad of epidemiologically important species of food-borne trematodes (O. felineus, O. viverrini and C. sinensis), and the causative agent of ...
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Complete mitochondrial genome of the giant liver fluke Fascioloides magna (Digenea: Fasciolidae) and its comparison with selected trematodes
... Background: Representatives of the trematode family Fasciolidae are responsible for major socio-economic losses worldwide. Fascioloides magna is an important pathogenic liver fluke of wild and domestic ...
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Discovering proteins for chemoprevention and chemotherapy by curcumin in liver fluke infection-induced bile duct cancer
... Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a malignant tumor originating from biliary epithelium cells, is a rare cancer in Western countries but is highly prevalent in Southeast Asian countries, espe- cially in Northeast Thailand ...
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The sigma class glutathione transferase from the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica
... adult liver fluke in S-hexyl-GSH affinity isolated fractions of cytosol ...adult fluke cultured in vitro (Figure 3) suggesting that the protein could, in principle, come into contact with the host ...
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Cryptic intermediate snail host of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica in Africa
... Until relatively recently, the taxonomy of snails was consolidated to a single genus Lymnaea with remark- able morphological diversity; however, with application of molecular phylogenetics a multi-generic nomencla- ture ...
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Granulin secreted by the food-borne liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini promotes angiogenesis in human endothelial cells
... implicates liver fluke infection in the etiology of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), commonly known as bile duct cancer—one of the major liver cancer subtypes (1, ...of liver cancers in the endemic ...
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Proteomic profile of Bithynia siamensis goniomphalos snails upon infection with the carcinogenic liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini
... The liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini, represents a major public health problem in the Greater Mekong sub-region (Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Southern Vietnam), with >10 million people estimated to ...
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Genetic interrelationships of North American populations of giant liver fluke Fascioloides magna
... giant liver fluke populations clearly con- firmed a western North American origin of the Italian population; these flukes clustered with specimens from Alberta (Canada) and Oregon ...giant liver ...
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MOOSE EXPERIMENTALLY INFECTED WITH GIANT LIVER FLUKE (FASCIOLOIDES MAGNA)
... giant liver fluke (Fascioloides magna) develops normally in white-tailed deer (Odo- coileus virginianus), wapiti (Cervus elaphus canadensis), and caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), but in moose (Alces ...
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Suppression of aquaporin, a mediator of water channel control in the carcinogenic liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini
... the liver fluke Fasciola gigantica do not show conserved two NPA motifs, where the first NPA box is replaced by TAA although the second NPA box is conserved ...blood fluke, ...
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Gene discovery for the carcinogenic human liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini
... the liver fluke, C. sinensis (2,679 contigs) and the blood fluke, ...two liver flukes than in ...of fluke teguments [15], playing roles in surface maintenance and turnover in schisto- ...
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Prevalence, risk factors and spatial analysis of liver fluke infections in Danish cattle herds
... Methods: A retrospective population based study was performed using meat inspection data of approximately 1.5 million cattle slaughtered in the period 2011 to 2013. Annual cumulative prevalence of recorded liver ...
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Suppression of aquaporin, a mediator of water channel control in the carcinogenic liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini
... Histological analysis of Ov-aqp-2 dsRNA-treated flukes showed that the average pore size in the parenchymal tis- sue was reduced compared to control worms. This fin- ding, coupled with the inability of aqp-2-dsRNA ...
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Molecular characterization of a tetraspanin from the human liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini
... Tetraspanins (TSPs) are a family of membrane-spanning proteins that display four hydrophobic transmembrane domains interspersed with two extracellular loops and short intracellular amino and carboxyl tails [41,42,43]. ...
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Cryptic intermediate snail host of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica in Africa
... Until relatively recently, the taxonomy of snails was consolidated to a single genus Lymnaea with remark- able morphological diversity; however, with application of molecular phylogenetics a multi-generic nomencla- ture ...
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Cathepsin F cysteine protease of the human liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini
... Here, we report that O. viverrini expresses a cathepsin F cysteine protease throughout its development and that the enzyme is released from the adult parasites which reside in the bile ducts. The cathepsin F may be ...
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GIANT LIVER FLUKE IN NORTH DAKOTA MOOSE
... of liver fluke infection based on the recovery of flukes from liver tissue or comments in reports that sug- gested fluke infection including unspecified cysts or capsules in the liver, ...
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GIANT LIVER FLUKE AND MOOSE: JUST A FLUKE?
... ABSTRACT: The giant liver fluke, Fascioloides magna, is a possible contributing factor to moose (Alces alces) declines in North America, but evidence linking F. magna infection directly to moose mortality ...
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Biochemical Characterization and Differential Expression of a 16.5-Kilodalton Tegument-Associated Antigen from the Liver Fluke Fasciola hepatica
... the liver, migration through the liver parenchyma, and finally, lodgment within the bile ducts as a ma- ture egg-laying ...The liver fluke’s tegument is the outermost surface that covers the ...
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Liver fluke induces Cholangiocarcinoma
... Banchob Sripa and Chawalit Pairojkul are with the Department of Pathology; Sasithorn Kaewkes, Paiboon Sithithaworn, Thewarach Laha, and Smarn Tesana are with the Department of Parasitology; Eimorn Mairiang is with the ...
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