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Synthetic peptides elicit strong cellular immunity in Visceral Leishmaniasis na...
Brito, Rory Cristiane Fortes de; Cardoso, Jamille Mirelle de Oliveira; Reis, Levi Eduardo Soares; Mathias, Fernando Augusto SiqueiraReverse vaccinology or immunoinformatics is a computational methodology which integrates data from in silico epitope prediction, associated to other important information as, for example, the predicted subcellular location of the proteins used in the design of the context of vaccine development. This approach has the potential to search for new targets for vaccine development in the predicted proteome of pathog...
Peptide vaccines for leishmaniasis.
Brito, Rory Cristiane Fortes de; Cardoso, Jamille Mirelle de Oliveira; Reis, Levi Eduardo Soares; Vieira, João Filipe PereiraDue to an increase in the incidence of leishmaniases worldwide, the development of new strategies such as prophylactic vaccines to prevent infection and decrease the disease have become a high priority. Classic vaccines against leishmaniases were based on live or attenuated parasites or their subunits. Nevertheless, the use of whole parasite or their subunits for vaccine production has numerous disadvantages. T...
A contribuição de sistemas de associação de adjuvantes no aumento da eficácia v...
Mathias, Fernando Augusto SiqueiraPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas. Núcleo de Pesquisas em Ciências Biológicas, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa de Pós Graduação, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto.; A leishmaniose visceral humana (LVH) e a leishmaniose visceral canina (LVC) são as mais relevantes doenças emergentes com alta prevalência na América Latina, sobretudo no Brasil. Apesar disso, ainda são limitados os avanços obtidos tanto no...
Cinética da resposta imune inata induzida por diferentes adjuvantes vacinais.
Mathias, Fernando Augusto SiqueiraPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas. Núcleo de Pesquisas em Ciências Biológicas, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa de Pós Graduação, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto.; Adjuvantes são substâncias que atuam na resposta imune inata e quando combinadas a vacinas com antígenos específicos, são capazes de produzir uma resposta mais intensa ao antígeno alvo. Adjuvantes atuam de várias formas para apresentar um a...
LBSapSal-vaccinated dogs exhibit increased circulating T-lymphocyte subsets (CD...
Soares, Rodrigo Dian de Oliveira Aguiar; Roatt, Bruno Mendes; Ker, Henrique Gama; Moreira, Nádia das Dores; Mathias, Fernando Augusto SiqueiraBackground: The development of a protective vaccine against canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) is an alternative approach for interrupting the domestic cycle of Leishmania infantum. Given the importance of sand fly salivary proteins as potent immunogens obligatorily co-deposited during transmission of Leishmania parasites, their inclusion in an anti-Leishmania vaccine has been investigated in the last few deca...
A vaccine therapy for canine visceral leishmaniasis promoted significant improv...
Roatt, Bruno Mendes; Soares, Rodrigo Dian de Oliveira Aguiar; Reis, Levi Eduardo Soares; Cardoso, Jamille Mirelle de OliveiraHerein, we evaluated the treatment strategy employing a therapeutic heterologous vaccine composed of antigens of Leishmania braziliensis associated with MPL adjuvant (LBMPL vaccine) for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in symptomatic dogs naturally infected by Leishmania infantum. Sixteen dogs received immunotherapy with MPL adjuvant (n = 6) or with a vaccine composed of antigens of L. braziliensis associated with M...
Pharmacokinetic and tissue distribution of benznidazole after oral administrati...
Melo, Luísa Helena Perin de; Silva, Rodrigo Moreira da; Fonseca, Kátia da Silva; Cardoso, Jamille Mirelle de OliveiraSpecific chemotherapy using benznidazole (BNZ) for Chagas disease during the chronic stage is controversial due to its limited efficacy and toxic effects. Although BNZ has been used to treat Chagas disease since the 1970s, few studies about the biodistribution of this drug exist. In this study, BNZ tissue biodistribution in a murine model and its pharmacokinetic profile in plasma were monitored. A bioanalytical...
Immunological profile of resistance and susceptibility innaturally infected dog...
Leal, Gleisiane Gomes de Almeida; Roatt, Bruno Mendes; Soares, Rodrigo Dian de Oliveira Aguiar; Carneiro, Cláudia Martins; Giunchetti, Rodolfo CordeiroVisceral leishmaniasis has a great impact on public health, and dogs are considered the maindomestic reservoir of Leishmania infantum, the causal parasite. In this study, 159 animalsnaturally infected by L. infantum from an endemic area of Brazil were evaluated through ananalysis of cellular responses, using flow cytometry, and of the hematological parameters.The results confirmed that disease progression is as...
Dogs immunized with LBSap vaccine displayed high levels of IL-12and IL-10 cytok...
Souza, Juliana Vitoriano de; Moreira, Nádia das Dores; Souza, Daniel Menezes; Roatt, Bruno Mendes; Soares, Rodrigo Dian de Oliveira AguiarThe complex interplay between cytokines and chemokines regulates innate and adaptive immuneresponses against pathogens; specifically, cytokine and chemokine expression drives activation ofimmune effector cells and their recruitment to tissue infection sites. Herein, we inoculated dogs withLeishmania braziliensis antigens plus saponin (the LBSap vaccine), as well as with the vaccine components,and then used real...