Disease relevance of Echinostoma

• The expulsion of Echinostoma trivolvis: suppressive effects of dexamethasone on goblet cell hyperplasia and worm rejection in C3H/HeN mice [1].

High impact information on Echinostoma

• The distribution of glycylated tubulin has been analyzed in different populations of stable microtubules in a digenean flatworm, Echinostoma caproni (Platyhelminthes) [2].
• Cryptic species, belonging to the 37 collar-spine Echinostoma group, were distinguished using nuclear rDNA ITS (884 bases) and mtDNA CO1 (257 bases) and ND1 (530 bases) sequences [3].
• Negative effect on early post-implantation pregnancy and progesterone levels in mice infected with the intestinal trematode Echinostoma caproni [4].
• Copper in the form of copper sulfate (CuSO4) decreases the survival of Biomphalaria glabrata snails, but the effects of this molluscicide on Echinostoma caproni and Echinostoma trivolvis, 2 species of digeneans that use B. glabrata as intermediate hosts, are not known [5].
• Specific tyrosine phosphorylation in response to bile in Fasciola hepatica and Echinostoma friedi [6].

Biological context of Echinostoma

• Host-parasite relationships between Echinostoma caproni and RAG-2-deficient mice [7].
• An isoenzymatic analysis using thin-layer agarose gel isoelectrofocusing on laboratory strains of Echinostoma trivolvis and Echinostoma caproni adults showed characteristic monomorphic phenotypes for phosphoglucomutase and glucose phosphate isomerase [8].
• Bioavailability of chloroquine in mice infected with the intestinal trematode Echinostoma revolutum [9].

Anatomical context of Echinostoma

• Miracidia of Echinostoma paraensei were cultured in medium containing 14C-labeled amino acids, allowed to transform into sporocysts, and their excretory/secretory products (E-S) were collected and characterized by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography [10].

Associations of Echinostoma with chemical compounds

• Aerobic and anaerobic fermentation of glucose by Echinostoma liei [11].
• Effect of duration and intensity of infection with Echinostoma audyi on survival of Lymnaea rubiginosa exposed to copper sulfate [12].
• Gelatin substrate sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to analyze proteases in 14 day-old adults of Echinostoma caproni and Echinostoma trivolvis [13].
• Neural and glandular localisation of substance P in Echinostoma caproni (Trematoda-Digenea) [14].
• Argentophilic structures of the miracidium of Echinostoma trivolvis were described from 80 specimens reared from material originally collected in eastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Miracidia were impregnated with 0.5% aqueous silver nitrate solution [15].

Gene context of Echinostoma

• Although the ITS data provided insufficient resolution for an unequivocal solution to the relationships within the genus Echinostoma, it supported the identification of Echinoparyphium ellisi and the distinct species status of three isolates of Echinostoma revolutum as predicted from the ND1 data [16].
• Adult flukes were obtained from laboratory rats and hamsters fed with metacercariae isolated from Lymnaea (Bullastra) cumingiana Pfeiffer and were identified as Echinostoma malayanum Leiper based on the presence of a circumoral collar of 43-45 spines and the highly lobed testes [17].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Echinostoma

• C3H/HeN mice were infected with Echinostoma trivolvis metacercariae on day 0, given intramuscular injections of the immunosuppressive agent FK506 daily for 5 or 7 days, and necropsied on days 5, 8, 12, 15, 20, and 30 postinfection (p.i.). Control mice were infected with the echinostomes but were not treated with FK506 [18].

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