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Humoral and T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 reveal insights into immunity during...
Masood, Kiran Iqbal; Qaiser, Shama; Abidi, Syed Hani; Khan, Erum; Mahmood, Syed Faisal; Hussain, Areeba; Ghous, Zara; Imtiaz, Khekahsan; Ali, NatashaBackground: Protection against SARS-CoV-2 is mediated by humoral and T cell responses. Pakistan faced relatively low morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 through the pandemic. To examine the role of prior immunity in the population, we studied IgG antibody response levels, virus neutralizing activity and T cell reactivity to Spike protein in a healthy control group (HG) as compared with COVID-19 cases and indi...
Pre-erythrocytic activity of M5717 in monotherapy and combination in preclinica...
Fontinha, Diana; Arez, Francisca; Gal, Isabella Ramella; Nogueira, Gonçalo; Moita, Diana; Baeurle, Tobias Hyun Ho; Brito, Catarina; Spangenberg, ThomasCombination therapies have emerged to mitigate Plasmodium drug resistance, which has hampered the fight against malaria. M5717 is a potent multistage antiplasmodial drug under clinical development, which inhibits parasite protein synthesis. The combination of M5717 with pyronaridine, an inhibitor of hemozoin formation, displays potent activity against blood stage Plasmodium infection. However, the impact of thi...
Translation of liver stage activity of M5717, a Plasmodium elongation factor 2 ...
Khandelwal, Akash; Arez, Francisca; Alves, Paula M.; Badolo, Lassina; Brito, Catarina; Fischli, Christoph; Fontinha, Diana; Oeuvray, ClaudeBackground: Targeting the asymptomatic liver stage of Plasmodium infection through chemoprevention could become a key intervention to reduce malaria-associated incidence and mortality. Methods: M5717, a Plasmodium elongation factor 2 inhibitor, was assessed in vitro and in vivo with readily accessible Plasmodium berghei parasites. In an animal refinement, reduction, replacement approach, the in vitro IC99 value...
Central synthesis of temporomandibular dysfunction
Gonçalves, Inês; José, Irina; Jerónimo, João; Almeida, Maura; Alves, Paula M.; Ramos, Catarina; Pereira, Ângela Maria
Imaging of human differentiated 3D neural aggregates using light sheet fluoresc...
Gualda, Emilio J.; Simão, Daniel; Pinto, Catarina; Alves, Paula M.; Brito, CatarinaThe development of three dimensional (3D) cell cultures represents a big step for the better understanding of cell behavior and disease in a more natural like environment, providing not only single but multiple cell type interactions in a complex 3D matrix, highly resembling physiological conditions. Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) is becoming an excellent tool for fast imaging of such 3D biological ...