Search Results - "Reggi, M"
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Potential antiviral effects of pantethine against SARS-CoV-2
Published in Scientific reports (08-02-2023)“…SARS-CoV-2 interacts with cellular cholesterol during many stages of its replication cycle. Pantethine was reported to reduce total cholesterol levels and…”
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Vanin-1(-/-) mice show decreased NSAID- and Schistosoma-induced intestinal inflammation associated with higher glutathione stores
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (15-02-2004)“…Vanin-1 is a membrane-anchored pantetheinase highly expressed in the gut and liver. It hydrolyzes pantetheine to pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) and the…”
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Development of eosinophil peroxidase activity and concomitant alteration of the antioxidant defenses in the liver of mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni
Published in Journal of hepatology (01-04-1999)“…Background/Aims: The tropical parasite Schistosoma mansoni causes granulomatous inflammation following lodging of eggs in portal capillaries. In vitro studies…”
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Arginase expression in peritoneal macrophages and increase in circulating polyamine levels in mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni
Published in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS (01-08-2001)“…We investigated the nitric oxide (NO) synthase and arginase pathways in resident peritoneal macrophages of mice infected with the tropical parasite Schistosoma…”
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Protein-X, Pancreatic Stone-, Pancreatic thread-, reg-protein, P19, lithostathine, and now what? Characterization, structural analysis and putative function(s) of the major non-enzymatic protein of pancreatic secretions
Published in Current protein & peptide science (01-03-2001)“…Reg protein was first found in pancreatic stones. It was named Pancreatic Stone Protein and later renamed lithostathine, as it was assumed to prevent stone…”
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Circulating markers of oxidative stress and liver fibrosis in Sudanese subjects at risk of schistosomiasis and hepatitis
Published in Acta tropica (01-05-2005)“…Epidemiological studies in the developing world are frequently biased by the simultaneous presence of several infectious pathogens. In the present study, we…”
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Experimental schistosomiasis, protective aspects of granulomatous reaction in the mouse liver
Published in Parasitology research (1987) (01-04-2005)“…We show two mechanisms of liver protection by the granulomatous reaction against Schistosoma mansoni eggs entrapped in the organ. First, eosinophil peroxidase…”
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Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase activity reduces liver injury in murine schistosomiasis
Published in Parasitology (01-03-2001)“…We investigated the involvement of nitric oxide in Schistosoma-induced liver injury. We found that inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNA became detectable in…”
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Infection and disease in human schistosomiasis mansoni are under distinct major gene control
Published in Microbes and infection (01-06-1999)“…Considerable evidence has accumulated in the past few years indicating that infection levels and prevalence of schistosome infections in endemic populations…”
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Hyaluronate levels and markers of oxidative stress in the serum of Sudanese subjects at risk of infection with Schistosoma mansoni
Published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2000)“…We showed previously that infection by Schistosoma mansoni not only triggers the production of reactive oxygen species in mouse liver but also leads to the…”
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Control of aragonite deposition in colonial corals by intra-skeletal macromolecules
Published in Journal of structural biology (01-08-2013)“…Scleractinian coral skeletons are composed mainly of aragonite in which a small percentage of organic matrix (OM) molecules is entrapped. It is well known that…”
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Cervical artery exploration: choice and need for a non-invasive technique
Published in International angiology (01-04-1987)“…The different non-invasive exploratory techniques for cervical arteries are compared and classified as hemodynamic exploration methods (continuous and pulsed…”
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Quantification of human lithostathine by high performance liquid chromatography
Published in Gut (01-04-1995)“…Pancreatic stones of patients with chronic calcifying pancreatitis (CCP) are mostly made up of CaCO3 crystals. Formation and growth of such crystals is…”
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Interruption of the inferior vena cava using the Vascor filter: preliminary series of 51 cases
Published in Cardiovascular surgery (London, England) (01-06-1994)“…Between February 1991 and October 1991, vena cava filters made of Vascor (Toulon, France) were inserted into 51 patients. The male:female ratio was 29:22 and…”
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Ecdysone and 20 hydroxyecdysone: new hormones for the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni
Published in FEBS letters (24-01-1983)“…The insect moulting hormones, ecdysone and 20 hydroxyecdysone, were detected by the combined use of radioimmunoassay and high performance liquid chromatography…”
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Hypogonadism and ecdysteroid production in Loa loa and Mansonella perstans filariasis
Published in Acta tropica (01-07-1989)“…Possible endocrinological repercussions of infection with Loa loa and Mansonella perstans filariae were studied in Gabonese subjects. Microfilaremic males were…”
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Excretion of ecdysteroids by schistosomes as a marker of parasite infection
Published in FEBS letters (26-03-1984)“…Ecdysteroids produced by schistosomes are released in biological fluids of infected hosts. In the sera, the concentration of ecdysteroids correlates with the…”
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The role of omentopexy in the prevention of femoral anastomotic aneurysm
Published in Journal of cardiovascular surgery (01-03-1992)“…In our experience the incidence of anastomotic aneurysms (AA) after prosthetic bypass varied from 0.3 to 0.7% depending on location; it was 5 times higher at…”
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Detection of ecdysteroids in the human trematode, Schistosoma mansoni
Published in Parasitology (01-02-1982)“…Freeze fracture study of Schistosoma mansoni membrane differentiation enabled us to describe the characteristic features of the tegumental membrane complex at…”
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Carotid stenosis. Surgery after 75 years
Published in International angiology (01-07-1985)“…Is it reasonable and useful to perform surgery on carotid lesions after 75 years? ("old man" according to the W.H.O. classification). To answer this question,…”
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