Quantifying the mechanics of locomotion of the schistosome pathogen with respect to changes in its physical environment

Octopamine-signaling in the metazoan pathogen, Schistosoma mansoni : localization, small-molecule screening and opportunities for drug development

(2018) Nelly El-Sakkary et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Algorithmic Mapping and Characterization of the Drug-Induced Phenotypic-Response Space of Parasites Causing Schistosomiasis

(2018) Rahul Singh et al.   IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Two-Layer Elastographic 3-D Traction Force Microscopy

(2017) Begoña Álvarez-González et al.   Scientific Reports

Schistosoma mansoni cercariae swim efficiently by exploiting an elastohydrodynamic coupling

(2016) Deepak Krishnamurthy et al.   Nature Physics

Structure-Bioactivity Relationship for Benzimidazole Thiophene Inhibitors of Polo-Like Kinase 1 (PLK1), a Potential Drug Target in Schistosoma mansoni

(2016) Thavy Long et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Substrate Attributes Determine Gait in a Terrestrial Gastropod

(2016) Amberle McKee et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Schistosomiasis and its treatment

(2015) Conor R Caffrey   Future Medicinal Chemistry

Coordination of contractility, adhesion and flow in migrating Physarum amoebae

(2015) O. L. Lewis et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Experimental Investigation on the Morphology and Adhesion Mechanism of Leech Posterior Suckers

(2015) Huashan Feng et al.   PLoS One

The QDREC web server: determining dose–response characteristics of complex macroparasites in phenotypic drug screens

(2014) Daniel Asarnow et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Human schistosomiasis

(2014) Daniel G Colley et al.   LANCET

Crawlers in viscous environments: Linear vs non-linear rheology

(2013) A. DeSimone et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NON-LINEAR MECHANICS

Discrete one-dimensional crawlers on viscous substrates: Achievable net displacements and their energy cost

(2013) G. Noselli et al.   MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Nematode locomotion in unconfined and confined fluids

(2013) Alejandro Bilbao et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Three-Dimensional Quantification of Cellular Traction Forces and Mechanosensing of Thin Substrata by Fourier Traction Force Microscopy

(2013) Juan C. del Álamo et al.   PLoS One

Locomotion Control of Caenorhabditis elegans through Confinement

(2012) Félix Lebois et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Quantification and clustering of phenotypic screening data using time-series analysis for chemotherapy of schistosomiasis

(2012) Hyokyeong Lee et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Mechanics of peristaltic locomotion and role of anchoring

(2011) Y. Tanaka et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The mechanics of the adhesive locomotion of terrestrial gastropods

(2010) J. H. Lai et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Critical stresses for cancer cell detachment in microchannels

(2009) Cécile Couzon et al.   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Penetration of cercariae into the living human skin: Schistosoma mansoni vs. Trichobilharzia szidati

(2009) Wilfried Haas et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Drug Discovery for Schistosomiasis: Hit and Lead Compounds Identified in a Library of Known Drugs by Medium-Throughput Phenotypic Screening

(2009) Maha-Hamadien Abdulla et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Traction force microscopy on-chip: shear deformation of fibroblast cells

(2008) Tamal Das et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Differential use of protease families for invasion by schistosome cercariae

(2007) Jan Dvořák et al.   BIOCHIMIE