A blood-sucking species of Pericoma in Queensland (Dipt.)

A Case Report of Blood Sucking Behavior in a Patient with Borderline Personality Disorder

Self-mutilation is defined as intentional damaging of the body without intention to die. Patients with borderline personality disorder frequently mutilate themselves by means of cutting, burning and abrading their skin. In this case report, a patient with borderline personality disorder is described who has cut his skin and suck his blood Several times. He had also the history of killing pigeon...

Tahanidae (Dipt.) d'Iran, Tabanus mofidii nova species

A novel heme degradation pathway in a blood-sucking insect

Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Programa de Biologia Molecular e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-590, Brazil Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968-0519, USA Departamento de Parasitologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP 05508-900, Brazil Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacodinâmica, Instituto Os...

A heme-degradation pathway in a blood-sucking insect.

Hematophagous insects are vectors of diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. A common physiological event in the life of these insects is the hydrolysis of host hemoglobin in the digestive tract, leading to a massive release of heme, a known prooxidant molecule. Diverse organisms, from bacteria to plants, express the enzyme heme oxygenase, which catalyzes the oxidative de...

A survey of Angiostrongylus species in definitive hosts in Queensland

Despite the recent sporadic reports of angiostrongyliasis in humans, dogs and wildlife in eastern Australia there has been no systematic study to explore the epidemiology of Angiostrongylus spp. in definitive and intermediate hosts in the region. Little is known about the epidemiology of Angiostrongylus species in the definitive host in southeast Queensland, since the only survey conducted in t...