Pathogenetic mechanisms and treatment targets in cerebral malaria

A Hadjilaou, J Brandi, M Riehn, MA Friese… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Malaria, the most prevalent mosquito-borne infectious disease worldwide, has accompanied
humanity for millennia and remains an important public health issue despite advances in its …

The plant-based immunomodulator curcumin as a potential candidate for the development of an adjunctive therapy for cerebral malaria

PN Mimche, D Taramelli, L Vivas - Malaria journal, 2011 - Springer
The clinical manifestations of cerebral malaria (CM) are well correlated with underlying
major pathophysiological events occurring during an acute malaria infection, the most …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies to the Understanding of Cerebral Malaria Pathogenesis

A Comino Garcia-Munoz, I Varlet, GE Grau… - Pathogens, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cerebral malaria (CM), the most lethal clinical syndrome of Plasmodium falciparum
infection, mostly affects children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. CM is characterized by …

Pathway-GPS and SIGORA: identifying relevant pathways based on the over-representation of their gene-pair signatures

ABK Foroushani, FSL Brinkman, DJ Lynn - PeerJ, 2013 - peerj.com
Motivation. Predominant pathway analysis approaches treat pathways as collections of
individual genes and consider all pathway members as equally informative. As a result, at …

Mouse models for unravelling immunology of blood stage malaria

AC Olatunde, DH Cornwall, M Roedel, TJ Lamb - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Malaria comprises a spectrum of disease syndromes and the immune system is a major
participant in malarial disease. This is particularly true in relation to the immune responses …

Linking functional and molecular mechanisms of host resilience to malaria infection

T Kamiya, NM Davis, MA Greischar, D Schneider… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
It remains challenging to understand why some hosts suffer severe illnesses, while others
are unscathed by the same infection. We fitted a mathematical model to longitudinal …

Curcumin enhances non-opsonic phagocytosis of Plasmodium falciparum through up-regulation of CD36 surface expression on monocytes/macrophages

PN Mimche, E Thompson, D Taramelli… - Journal of antimicrobial …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Curcumin is a natural plant product with antimalarial activity and
immunomodulatory properties. In this study we aimed to investigate its effects on CD36 …

Genetic analysis of cerebral malaria in the mouse model infected with Plasmodium berghei

S Torre, D Langlais, P Gros - Mammalian Genome, 2018 - Springer
Malaria is a common and sometimes fatal disease caused by infection with Plasmodium
parasites. Cerebral malaria (CM) is a most severe complication of infection with Plasmodium …

Genetic map** of determinants in drug resistance, virulence, disease susceptibility, and interaction of host-rodent malaria parasites

X Su, J Wu, F Xu, S Pattaradilokrat - Parasitology international, 2022 - Elsevier
Genetic map** has been widely employed to search for genes linked to phenotypes/traits
of interest. Because of the ease of maintaining rodent malaria parasites in laboratory mice …

Mouse ENU mutagenesis to understand immunity to infection: methods, selected examples, and perspectives

G Caignard, MM Eva, R Van Bruggen, R Eveleigh… - Genes, 2014 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases are responsible for over 25% of deaths globally, but many more
individuals are exposed to deadly pathogens. The outcome of infection results from a set of …