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Prevalence of dry eye disease among visual display terminal office users in Uyo, Nigeria by Abraham EG, Motilewa OO, Itina EI

“…Context: Dry eye disease (DED) results from loss of tear film homeostasis. Increase use of visual display terminals (VDT) by individuals and professionals…”
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Socio-demographic characteristics and ocular status of participants attending world glaucoma week screening by Abraham EG, Megbelayin EO, Ndubuisi C

“…Background: A large and growing body of evidence shows that socio-demographic factors – age, race, ethnicity and language as well as socioeconomic status…”
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immune-responsive serpin, SRPN6, mediates mosquito defense against malaria parasites by Abraham, E.G, Pinto, S.B, Ghosh, A, Vanlandingham, D.L, Budd, A, Higgs, S, Kafatos, F.C, Jacobs-Lorena, M, Michel, K

“…We have functionally analyzed the orthologous SRPN6 genes from Anopheles stephensi and Anopheles gambiae using phylogenetic, molecular, reverse genetic, and…”
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Mosquito midgut barriers to malaria parasite development by Abraham, Eappen G, Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo

“…Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases and kills more than one million people every year. For transmission to occur, the malaria parasite has to…”
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Bee Venom Phospholipase Inhibits Malaria Parasite Development in Transgenic Mosquitoes by Moreira, Luciano A, Ito, Junitsu, Ghosh, Anil, Devenport, Martin, Zieler, Helge, Abraham, Eappen G, Crisanti, Andrea, Nolan, Tony, Catteruccia, Flaminia, Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo

“…Malaria kills millions of people every year, and new control measures are urgently needed. The recent demonstration that (effector) genes can be introduced…”
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Seroprevalence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii IgG antibody and risk factors among abattoir workers in Uyo, Southern Nigeria by Ekanem, U, Moses, A, Abraham, E, Motilewa, O, Umo, A, Uwah, A, Itina, E

“…Context: The asymptomatic nature of toxoplasmosis with its severe consequences, especially in populations with high HIV infection rate, makes it a disease of…”
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Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in diabetes mellitus patients attending a tertiary eye clinic in Uyo south- south Nigeria by Abraham EG, Umoh VA

“…Diabetes retinopathy is the most serious eye complication of diabetes mellitus. Ocular complications from diabetes mellitus could result from microangiopathy…”
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Analysis of the Plasmodium and Anopheles Transcriptional Repertoire during Ookinete Development and Midgut Invasion by Abraham, Eappen G., Islam, Shabana, Srinivasan, Prakash, Ghosh, Anil K., Valenzuela, Jesus G., Ribeiro, Jose M.C., Kafatos, Fotis C., Dimopoulos, George, Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo

“…Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria, has to undergo sexual differentiation and development in anopheline mosquitoes for transmission to occur. To…”
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Analysis of the Plasmodium and Anopheles Transcriptomes during Oocyst Differentiation by Srinivasan, Prakash, Abraham, Eappen G., Ghosh, Anil K., Valenzuela, Jesus, Ribeiro, Jose M.C., Dimopoulos, George, Kafatos, Fotis C., Adams, John H., Fujioka, Hisashi, Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo

“…Understanding the life cycle of the malaria parasite in its mosquito vector is essential for developing new strategies to combat this disease. Subtractive…”
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Driving midgut-specific expression and secretion of a foreign protein in transgenic mosquitoes with AgAper1 regulatory elements by Abraham, E.G, Donnelly-Doman, M, Fujioka, H, Ghosh, A, Moreira, L, Jacobs-Lorena, M

“…The Anopheles gambiae adult peritrophic matrix protein 1 (AgAper1) regulatory elements were used to drive the expression of phospholipase A2 (PLA2), a protein…”
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Pattern of traditional eye medications use as seen in a tertiary hospital-university of Uyo Teaching Hospital experience by Abraham EG, Ekanem US

“…BACKGROUND: Traditional eye medications (TEM) are biologically based concoctions instilled into the eye to achieve a desired ocular therapeutic effect but its…”
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Genetic transformation of mosquitoes: a quest for malaria control by Moreira, Luciano A., Ghosh, Anil K., Abraham, Eappen G., Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo

“…Malaria inflicts an enormous toll in human lives and this burden is increasing. Present means to fight the disease, such as drugs and insecticides, are…”
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Structure of the induced antibacterial protein from tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta. Implications to molecular evolution by Jain, D, Nair, D T, Swaminathan, G J, Abraham, E G, Nagaraju, J, Salunke, D M

“…The crystal structure of an antibacterial protein of immune origin (TSWAB), purified from tasar silkworm (Antheraea mylitta) larvae after induction by…”
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Molecular strategies to study Plasmodium–mosquito interactions by Ghosh, Anil, Srinivasan, Prakash, Abraham, Eappen G, Fujioka, Hisashi, Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo

“…It is widely known that malaria kills millions of people every year. Less well recognized is the fact that the situation is steadily deteriorating for a lack…”
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Purification and characterization of digestive amylase from the tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) by Nagaraju, J., Abraham, E.G.

“…Digestive amylase was purified from larvae of Indian tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta using ammonium sulphate precipitation, glycogen complex precipitation…”
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Purification and Partial Characterization of an Induced Antibacterial Protein in the Silkworm, Bombyx mori by Abraham, E.G, Nagaraju, J, Salunke, D, Gupta, H.M, Datta, R.K

“…Injection of live Escherichia coli into larvae of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, induces antibacterial activity in the hemolymph. The major induced antibacterial…”
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Expression of a Bombyx cytoplasmic actin gene in cultured Drosophila cells: influence of 20-hydroxyecdysone and interference with expression of endogenous cytoplasmic actin genes by Abraham, E G, Mounier, N, Bosquet, G

“…The expression of the Bombyx cytoplasmic actin A3 gene and its response to 20-hydroxyecdysone are studied after transfection in hormone responsive Drosophila…”
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