Passage of parasites across the blood-brain barrier

Toxoplasma gondiiand the blood-brain barrier

(2012) Sabrina M. Feustel et al.   Virulence

Influence of trypanocidal therapy on the haematology of vervet monkeys experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

(2011) Maina Ngotho et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Proteases as regulators of pathogenesis: Examples from the Apicomplexa

(2011) Hao Li et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

How can microbial interactions with the blood-brain barrier modulate astroglial and neuronal function?

(2011) Dennis J. Grab et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Interferon-gamma- and perforin-mediated immune responses for resistance against Toxoplasma gondii in the brain

(2011) Yasuhiro Suzuki et al.   EXPERT REVIEWS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

An insight into the ligand–receptor interactions involved in the translocation of pathogens across blood–brain barrier

(2011) Elena Bencurova et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Migratory Activation of Primary Cortical Microglia upon Infection with Toxoplasma gondii

(2011) Isabel Dellacasa-Lindberg et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Distinct Toll-like Receptor Signals Regulate Cerebral Parasite Load and Interferon α/β and Tumor Necrosis Factor α–Dependent T-Cell Infiltration in the Brains of Trypanosoma brucei–Infected Mice

(2011) Daniel Ndem Amin et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Neuroschistosomiasis: clinical symptoms and pathogenesis

(2011) Teresa Cristina A Ferrari et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Induction of pro-inflammatory mediators in Plasmodium berghei infected BALB/c mice breaks blood-brain-barrier and leads to cerebral malaria in an IL-12 dependent manner

(2011) Kim E. Schmidt et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Microbes' roadmap to neurons

(2011) Krister Kristensson   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Immunisation with Recombinant PfEMP1 Domains Elicits Functional Rosette-Inhibiting and Phagocytosis-Inducing Antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum

(2011) Ashfaq Ghumra et al.   PLoS One

Area 51: How do Acanthamoeba invade the central nervous system?

(2011) Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Identification of Stage Biomarkers for Human African Trypanosomiasis

(2010) Daniel Ndem Amin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Toxoplasma gondii Cyclophilin 18 Regulates the Proliferation and Migration of Murine Macrophages and Spleen Cells

(2010) H. M. Ibrahim et al.   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Toxoplasma gondii: The severity of toxoplasmic encephalitis in C57BL/6 mice is associated with increased ALCAM and VCAM-1 expression in the central nervous system and higher blood–brain barrier permeability

(2010) Neide Maria Silva et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

The role ofPlasmodium falciparumvariant surface antigens in protective immunity and vaccine development

(2010) Lars Hviid   Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

A NovelEntamoeba histolyticaCysteine Proteinase, EhCP4, Is Key for Invasive Amebiasis and a Therapeutic Target

(2010) Chen He et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Intracellular transport of Toxoplasma gondii through the blood–brain barrier

(2010) Sabrina M. Lachenmaier et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

Th2 immune response against Schistosoma mansoni infection

(2010) Gabriele Schramm et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Acquired infection with Toxoplasma gondii in adult mice results in sensorimotor deficits but normal cognitive behavior despite widespread brain pathology

(2010) Maria Gulinello et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Migratory responses of leukocytes infected with Toxoplasma gondii

(2010) Henrik Lambert et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Biochemical and immunopathological changes in experimental neurotoxocariasis

(2010) Ahmad A. Othman et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Pericytes regulate the blood–brain barrier

(2010) Annika Armulik et al.   NATURE

Cerebral Malaria: Mechanisms of Brain Injury and Strategies for Improved Neurocognitive Outcome

(2010) Richard Idro et al.   PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

Microvesiculation and cell interactions at the brain–endothelial interface in cerebral malaria pathogenesis

(2010) Valéry Combes et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Partial Biochemical Characterization of a Metalloproteinase from the Bloodstream Forms of Trypanosoma brucei brucei Parasites

(2010) Karina Pires de Sousa et al.   PROTEIN JOURNAL

Matrix metalloproteinase-9 and intercellular adhesion molecule 1 are powerful staging markers for human African trypanosomiasis

(2010) Alexandre Hainard et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Swimming with death: Naegleria fowleri infections in recreational waters

(2010) Travis W. Heggie   Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

IL-33 receptor (T1/ST2) signalling is necessary to prevent the development of encephalitis in mice infected withToxoplasma gondii

(2009) Leigh A. Jones et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Toxoplasma gondiiinfection and cerebral toxoplasmosis in HIV-infected patients

(2009) Vera Lucia Pereira-Chioccola et al.   Future Microbiology

Toxoplasma gondii Cyclophilin 18-Mediated Production of Nitric Oxide Induces Bradyzoite Conversion in a CCR5-Dependent Manner

(2009) H. M. Ibrahim et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Toxoplasmosis: A history of clinical observations

(2009) Louis M. Weiss et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Acanthamoeba affects the integrity of human brain microvascular endothelial cells and degrades the tight junction proteins

(2009) Naveed Ahmed Khan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Expression and Role of CXCL10 during the Encephalitic Stage of Experimental and Clinical African Trypanosomiasis

(2009) Daniel N. Amin et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Structure and function of the blood–brain barrier

(2009) N. Joan Abbott et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Trypanosomiasis and the brain

(2009) JEAN RODGERS   PARASITOLOGY

African trypanosome infections of the nervous system: Parasite entry and effects on sleep and synaptic functions

(2009) Krister Kristensson et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis as pathogens affecting the nervous system

(2009) Siddhartha Mahanty et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The blood–brain and the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barriers: function and dysfunction

(2009) Britta Engelhardt et al.   Seminars in Immunopathology

Central nervous system involvement in Chagas disease: a hundred-year-old history

(2009) José Eymard Homem Pittella   TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Induction of partial protection against infection with Toxoplasma gondii genotype II by DNA vaccination with recombinant chimeric tachyzoite antigens

(2009) Carina Rosenberg et al.   VACCINE

Protease Activated Receptor Signaling Is Required for African Trypanosome Traversal of Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells

(2009) Dennis J. Grab et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

A Combined CXCL10, CXCL8 and H-FABP Panel for the Staging of Human African Trypanosomiasis Patients

(2009) Alexandre Hainard et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

High Throughput Functional Assays of the Variant Antigen PfEMP1 Reveal a Single Domain in the 3D7 Plasmodium falciparum Genome that Binds ICAM1 with High Affinity and Is Targeted by Naturally Acquired Neutralizing Antibodies

(2009) Andrew V. Oleinikov et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Alternative Activation of Macrophages: An Immunologic Functional Perspective

(2008) Fernando O. Martinez et al.   Annual Review of Immunology

Increasing Importance of Balamuthia mandrillaris

(2008) A. Matin et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Increased expression of ICAM-1 among symptomatic neurocysticercosis

(2008) Amit Prasad et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

Perivascular Spaces and the Two Steps to Neuroinflammation

(2008) Trevor Owens et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus-Induced Central Nervous System Disease: a Model for Studying the Role of Chemokines in Regulating the Acute Antiviral CD8+ T-Cell Response in an Immune-Privileged Organ

(2008) A. R. Thomsen   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Demonstration and partial characterization of ecto-ATPase inBalamuthia mandrillarisand its possible role in the host-cell interactions

(2008) A. Matin et al.   LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanisms of microbial traversal of the blood–brain barrier

(2008) Kwang Sik Kim   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Blood-brain barrier impairment with enhanced SP, NK-1R, GFAP and Claudin-5 expressions in experimental cerebral toxocariasis

(2008) C.-W. LIAO et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Specificity of the Toxoplasma gondii-altered behaviour to definitive versus non-definitive host predation risk

(2008) P. H. L. LAMBERTON et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Dissemination of extracellular and intracellular Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites in the blood flow

(2008) Akihiro Unno et al.   PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Differential Invasion ofTrypanosoma brucei bruceiand Lymphocytes into the Brain of C57BL/6 and 129Sv/Ev Mice

(2008) W. Masocha et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

The immune response in Taenia solium neurocysticercosis in pigs is associated with astrogliosis, axonal degeneration and altered blood–brain barrier permeability

(2008) C.S. Sikasunge et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

RNA Interference of Trypanosoma brucei Cathepsin B and L Affects Disease Progression in a Mouse Model

(2008) Maha-Hamadien Abdulla et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Differential use of protease families for invasion by schistosome cercariae

(2007) Jan Dvořák et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Balamuthia amoebic encephalitis: An emerging disease with fatal consequences

(2007) Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui et al.   MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS