Worms remodel immune responsiveness

Immune responsiveness in vector insects.

Insects have been particularly successful in evolution, and current estimates are that they represent three-quarters of all extant animal species. With the marked exception of the seas, insects occupy nearly all ecological niches on earth and hence are confronted to innumerable potential pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoan and helminth parasites. Not surprisingly therefore, insec...

Immune Responses to Antigens of in vitro Reared Echinococcus granulosus Adult Worms in Balb/c Mice

Background: Cystic echinococcosis (CE), also known as echinococcosis/hydatidosis, is one of the most important parasitic diseases in the world. It enhances both humoral and cellular (Th1 and Th2) responses in infected host. Different antigens of the worm may favor the Th1 or Th2 immune responses in CE patients. Objective: To evaluate the humoral and cellular immune responses of Balb/c mice agai...

OMEGA - REMODEL Trial

Immune responsiveness in chronic fatigue syndrome.

We have endeavoured to find immunological indications of chronic virus infection in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis) and to investigate immune responsiveness to viruses in such patients in comparison with normal subjects and patients with muscular dystrophy. Levels of circulating IgM immune complexes were elevated (above the 95% normal control range) in 10 (17%...

Experimental autoimmune uveitis: cellular immune responsiveness.

N. Y. Supported by Grant Award EY 00699 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Presented in part before the Spring Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, April 1979. Submitted for publication Nov. 19. 1979. Reprint requests: E. I. Anderson, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, N. Y. 10032.