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Neglected tropical diseases

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Advances in helminth immunology: optimism for future vaccine design?

Intestinal helminths infect approximately 2 billion people worldwide. Worm burdens correlate with disease morbidity and children generally harbor the largest numbers. The majority of intestinal helminths do not replicate within their host, and worm burdens ...

2011

Chronic delivery of antibody fragments using immunoisolated cell implants as a passive vaccination tool

Rolf Gruetter, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Patrick Aebischer, Maurizio Molinari, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Jean-Charles Bensadoun, Nicolas Bouche, Veronica Setola, Osiris Marroquin Belaunzaran

BACKGROUND: Monoclonal antibodies and antibody fragments are powerful biotherapeutics for various debilitating diseases. However, high production costs, functional limitations such as inadequate pharmacokinetics and tissue accessibility are the current pri ...

Public Library of Science2011

Population-specific expression analysis (PSEA) reveals molecular changes in diseased brain

Doris Chau Voo Thu

Human diseases are often accompanied by histological changes that confound interpretation of molecular analyses and identification of disease-related effects. We developed population-specific expression analysis (PSEA), a computational method of analyzing ...

Nature Publishing Group2011

Polylactide-cyclosporin A nanoparticles for targeted immunosuppression

Li Tang

Polymeric nanoparticles (NPs), prepared via coprecipitation of drugs and polymers, are promising drug delivery vehicles for treating diseases with improved efficacy and reduced toxicity. Here, we report an unprecedented strategy for preparing polylactide-c ...

2010

New efficient synthetic strategies towards the AB and CD spiroketal fragments of spongistatins and analogues

Sylvain Favre

For thousands of years, nature provided us remedies to treat diseases and its biologically active molecules inspired chemists for the development of new drugs. In 1993, three research groups independently reported the isolation, from sponges, of spongistat ...

EPFL2009

Lack of Insertional-Deletional Polymorphism in a Collection of Mycobacterium ulcerans Isolates from Ghanaian Buruli Ulcer Patients

Stewart Cole, Julia Hauser

Mycobacterium ulcerans causes the devastating infectious skin disease Buruli ulcer and has a monomorphic population structure. The resolution of conventional genetic fingerprinting methods is therefore not sufficient for microepidemiological studies aiming ...

American Society for Microbiology2009

Buruli ulcer: reductive evolution enhances pathogenicity of Mycobacterium ulcerans

Stewart Cole

Buruli ulcer is an emerging human disease caused by infection with a slow-growing pathogen, Mycobacterium ulcerans, that produces mycolactone, a cytotoxin with immunomodulatory properties. The disease is associated with wetlands in certain tropical countri ...

2008

Polyclonal and specific antibodies mediate protective immunity against enteric helminth infection

Nicola Harris, Andrew J. Macpherson

Anti-helminth immunity involves CD4+ T cells, yet the precise effector mechanisms responsible for parasite killing or expulsion remain elusive. We now report an essential role for antibodies in mediating immunity against the enteric helminth Heligmosomoide ...

2008

Swiss Cancer Center (Gland, VD)

Patrick DeCaro

Cancer: growth caused by uncontrolled and abnormal cell division, resulting in a non-structured mass or tumor, serving no beneficial purpose to the body. Even though cancer is one of the leading fatal diseases of today's world, with no distinction for age, ...

2008

Protection against Mycobacterium ulcerans lesion development by exposure to aquatic insect saliva

Stewart Cole

BACKGROUND: Buruli ulcer is a severe human skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. This disease is primarily diagnosed in West Africa with increasing incidence. Antimycobacterial drug therapy is relatively effective during the preulcerative stage of ...

2007

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