Over their 500 million year history, gastropods have radiated into marine, freshwater and
terrestrial environments and adopted life styles ranging from herbivory to carnivory to …

Schistosomiasis remains the most important tropical snail-borne trematodiasis that threatens
many millions of human lives. In achieving schistosomiasis elimination targets, sustainable …

Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, owes its continued success to freshwater
snails that support production of prolific numbers of human-infective cercariae. Encounters …

A 70-mer-oligonucleotide-based microarray (1152 features) that emphasizes stress and
immune responses factors was constructed to study transcriptomic responses of the snail …

Cypermethrin induces the slow and progressive degeneration of the nigrostriatal
dopaminergic neurons in rats. Postnatal preexposure with low doses of cypermethrin is …

The immune cells of the snail Biomphalaria glabrata are classified into hyalinocyte and
granulocyte subtypes. Both subtypes are essential for the proper functioning of the snail …

Successful colonization of a compatible snail host by a digenetic trematode miracidium
initiates a complex, proliferative development program requiring weeks to reach culmination …

Background Melanoma is one of the most aggressive tumors with the remarkable
characteristic of resistance to traditional chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Although targeted …

Biomphalaria glabrata snails that display either resistant or susceptible phenotypes to the
parasitic trematode, Schistosoma mansoni provide an invaluable resource towards …

Continuing transmission of human intestinal schistosomiasis depends on the parasite's
access to susceptible snail intermediate hosts (often Biomphalaria glabrata). Transmission …