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In vivo antileishmanial efficacy of a naphthoquinone derivate incorporated into...
Mendonça, Débora Vasconcelos Costa; Tavares, Grasiele de Sousa Vieira; Lage, Daniela Pagliara; Soyer, Tauane Gonçalves; Carvalho, Lívia MendesNew therapeutic strategies against leishmaniasis are desirable, since the treatment against disease presents problems, such as the toxicity, high cost and/or parasite resistance. As consequence, new antileishmanial compounds are necessary to be identified, as presenting high activity against Leishmania parasites, but low toxicity in mammalian hosts. Flau-A is a naphthoquinone derivative recently showed to prese...
Poloxamer 407 (Pluronic® F127)-based polymeric micelles for amphotericin B : in...
Mendonça, Débora Vasconcelos Costa; Lage, Letícia Martins dos Reis; Lage, Daniela Pagliara; Chávez Fumagalli, Miguel Angel; Ludolf, FernandaIn the present study, a Poloxamer 407-based amphotericin B (AmpB)-containing polymeric micelles system (AmpB/M) was employed in the treatment of Leishmania amazonensis-infected BALB/c mice. Initially, the in vitro antileishmanial activity (IC50 value) of AmpB/M and B-AmpB/M (empty micelles) against stationary promastigotes and amastigotes-like forms of the parasites was determined, and results were of 1.83 ± 0....
Epitope mapping of the HSP83.1 protein of Leishmania braziliensis discloses nov...
Souza, Daniel Menezes; Mendes, Tiago Antônio de Oliveira; Gomes, Matheus de Souza; Cunha, João Luís Reis; Nagem, Ronaldo Alves PintoGold standard serological diagnostic methods focus on antigens that elicit a strong humoral immune response that is specific to a certain pathogen. In this study, we used bioinformatics approaches to identify linear B-cell epitopes that are conserved among Leishmania species but are divergent from the host species Homo sapiens and Canis familiaris and from Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas dise...
Treatment of murine visceral leishmaniasis using an 8-hydroxyquinoline-containi...
Duarte, Mariana Costa; Lage, Letícia Martins dos Reis; Lage, Daniela Pagliara; Martins, Vivian Tamietti; Carvalho, Ana Maria Ravena SeverinoNewtherapeutics are urgently needed to treat visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Due to the fact that drug discovery is a long and expensive process, the development of delivery systems to carry old and toxic drugs could be considered, as well as the evaluation of new molecules that have already shown to present biological activity. In this context, the present study evaluated the in vitro and in vivo antileishmanial ...
Higher expression of CCL2, CCL4, CCL5, CCL21, and CXCL8 chemokines in the skin ...
Souza, Daniel Menezes; Cota, Renata Guerra de Sá; Carneiro, Cláudia Martins; Souza, Juliana Vitoriano de; Giunchetti, Rodolfo CordeiroBackground: The immune response in the skin of dogs infected with Leishmania infantum is poorly understood, and limited studies have described the immunopathological profile with regard to distinct levels of tissue parasitism and the clinical progression of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL). Methodology/Principal Findings: A detailed analysis of inflammatory cells (neutrophils, eosinophils, mast cells, lympho...
Immunodiagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis using mimotope peptides select...
Machado, Christina Monerat Toledo; Ávila, Ricardo Andrez Machado de; NGuyen, Christophe; Granier, Claude; Bueno, Lilian LacerdaELISA and RIFI are currently used for serodiagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL). The accuracy of these tests is controversial in endemic areas where canine infections by Trypanosoma cruzi may occur.We evaluated the usefulness of synthetic peptides that were selected through phage display technique in the serodiagnosis of CVL. Peptides were chosen based on their ability to bind to IgGs purified from i...
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...
Cytokine and transcription factor profiles in the skin of dogs naturally infect...
Souza, Daniel Menezes; Oliveira, Rodrigo Corrêa de; Cota, Renata Guerra de Sá; Giunchetti, Rodolfo Cordeiro; Carvalho, Andréa Teixeira deThe immune response in the skin of dogs infected withLeishmania chagasi and its asso-ciation with distinct levels of tissue parasitism and clinical progression of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) are poorly understood and limited studies are available. A detailed analysis of the profiles of cytokines (IFN- , IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, IL-12, IL-13, TGF- 1 and TNF- ) and transcription factors (T-bet, GATA-3 and FOXP3...