Immunological aspects of host-schistosome relationships

Comparative aspects of host-parasite and host-tumor relationships.

Biochemical and immunological adaptation in schistosome parasitism.

The objective of this review is to clarify aspects of immunological and biochemical adaptations of schistosomes to their intermediate and final mammalian hosts. Adaptations to the mammalian hosts are traced in relation to cercarial penetration of mammalian skin, glucose transport and metabolism. The unusual ability of schistosome surface membrane to escape immune recognition and damage are revi...

Transplantation of sporocysts between host snails : schistosome

Schistosomiasis is an important parasitic disease, touching roughly 200 million people worldwide. The causative agents are different species. Schistosoma Schistosomes have a complex life cycle, with a freshwater snail as intermediate host. After infection, sporocysts develop inside the snail host and give rise to human dwelling larvae. We present here a detailed step-by-step video instruction i...

Immunological aspects of asthma.

PROFESSOR SCADDING's definition of asthma (Scad-ding, 1969) i.e. 'a condition characterized by variable dyspnoea with wheezing and prolonged expiration wholly or partially reversed by bronchodilators', is a clinical definition. It would be premature at this stage to attempt to define asthma in relation to its pathogenesis as this is still not understood. For the purpose of this symposium, howev...

Immunological aspects of epilepsy.

In recent years, the concept of an immunological background of some types of epilepsy has been gaining an increasing number of supporters. The following article is an attempt to review the most significant studies that explore irregularities in patients with intractable epilepsy, search for and identify the immunological causal factors of seizures and, finally, associate these factors with part...