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Disease relevance of Mites

  • Cross-reactivity between the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and the mange mites Psoroptes cuniculi and P. ovis. I. Demonstration of antibodies to the house dust mite allergen Dpt 12 in sera from P. cuniculi-infested rabbits [1].
  • CONCLUSIONS: Children with AR and concomitant atopic dermatitis show a preferential sensitization to the Dermatophagoides mites [2].
  • A polymerase chain reaction-based strategy has been developed that enables genotyping individual scabies mites [3].
  • In an open study, 21 patients suffering from chronic non-seasonal rhinitis and allergic to house mites (HDM) have been treated for 1 year with either a new extract (Pharmalagen; n = 10) or an allergoid, pyridine denatured, extract (Alavac; n = 11), both precipitated with AlOH3 (depot) [4].
  • A statistically significant increase in mites was found in all subgroups of rosacea, being most marked in those with steroid-induced rosacea [5].
 

Psychiatry related information on Mites

 

High impact information on Mites

  • Similar patterns were not found for the combination of allergy to dust mites or cat dander and high levels of the allergen [7].
  • These mites are able to paralyse insects 150,000 times their size and their venom is effective in a broad range of insect species [8].
  • Whereas the rice ubiquitin2 (rubq2) promoter in rice (Oryza sativa) line IR24 contains two nested MITEs (Kiddo and MDM1), that in line T309 has lost Kiddo, providing an opportunity to understand the role of MITEs in promoter function [9].
  • When methylation of the MITEs was blocked by 5-azacytidine treatment, a threefold increase in the endogenous rubq2 transcript level was detected in IR24 compared with that in T309 [9].
  • These results suggest that SCCA2 acts as a cross-class serpin targeting an extrinsic cysteine proteinase derived from house dust mites and that it may have a protective role against biological reactions caused by mites [10].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Mites

 

Biological context of Mites

  • Individual mites were genotyped at hypervariable microsatellite loci by a fluorescence-based polymerase chain reaction [16].
  • After a period of acclimation to the animal care facilities, the rabbits were ranked on the visual appearance of any ear lesion and the number of mites on glycerin-dipped ear swabs [17].
  • For malathion, the mean LD50 for mites from three caged layer flocks was 119.35 ppm while concentrations as high as 500 ppm gave only low mortalities (20% or less) of mites from the other flocks and LD50 values could not be calculated [18].
  • DNA sequence data were used to examine phylogenetic relationships between six species of economically important Tetranychidae mites: Eotetranychus carpini (Oudemans), E. pruni (Reck), Tetranychus pacificus McGregor, T. mcdanieli McGregor, T. turkestani Ugarov & Nikolski and T. urticae Koch [19].
  • However, the herbicide preparation had acute toxic effects on enchytraeids [no-observed-effect level (NOEL) 1.0 g a.i. /m2] and both gamasid mites (NOEL 2.4 and 5.0 g a.i./m2) [20].
 

Anatomical context of Mites

  • RESULTS: LFA-1 staining on epithelial cells was demonstrated in 12/13 patients allergic to mites and not in normal controls or in patients allergic to pollen tested out of the pollen season [21].
  • The effect of KB-2413 on IgE-mediated histamine and LTC4 release from leukocytes obtained from asthmatic patients who were sensitive to mites, and from human lung tissues passively sensitized with IgE myeloma serum was studied [22].
  • To obtain a deeper knowledge of this phenomenon, we studied the mites' impact on the vitellogenin titer, the total protein stores in the hemolymph, the hemocyte characteristics, and the ecdysteroid titer of adult honey bees [23].
 

Associations of Mites with chemical compounds

  • BACKGROUND: Dust mites are important inducers of allergic disease [24].
  • A double-blind, placebo controlled trial of solidified benzyl benzoate applied in dwellings of asthmatic patients sensitive to mites: clinical efficacy and effect on mite allergens [25].
  • Skin prick tests to work-related allergens (laboratory animal, flour, and latex) and common allergens (mites, molds, pets, and pollen) were administered at baseline and at up to 3 subsequent annual visits [26].
  • BACKGROUND: Dust mites have been shown to contain a serine protease distinct from the previously reported trypsin and chymotrypsin [27].
  • METHODS: We took monthly measurements from July to December of the amount of mites in the mattresses of asthmatic children and correlated them with symptom score, pulmonary function, and airway hyperreactivity to methacholine [28].
 

Gene context of Mites

  • PAX 1 contains animal danders and feathers, PAX 2 mites and insects, and PAX 3 pollens and molds [29].
  • Mites and mite products induced cells in the HSEs to secrete IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta within 16 hr [30].
  • Of mites and zen: expression studies in a chelicerate arthropod confirm zen is a divergent Hox gene [31].
  • Using a PCR assay with a Wolbachia-specific primer pair (ftsZ), and by standard crosses, we were able to show that 71 per cent of the mites had lost the Wolbachia infection after rearing the infected population at 32+/-0.5 degrees C for four generations [32].
  • The cuticular layer of the mites located within the pilosebaceous unit was selectively immunoreactive for IgD (delta chain), alpha-1-antitrypsin and alpha-1-antichymotrypsin [33].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Mites

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