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Home / Archives for Alexandre-Pires G

Dog hepatocytes are key effector cells in the liver innate immune response to Leishmania infantum

  • Autores: Rodrigues A, Alexandre-Pires G, Valério-Bolas A, Santos-Mateus D, Rafael-Fernandes M, Pereira MA, Ligeiro D, Nunes T, Alves-Azevedo R, Lopes-Ventura S, Santos M, Tomás AM, Pereira da Fonseca I, Santos-Gomes G
  • Ano de Publicação: 2019
  • Journal: Parasitology
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30561285

Hepatocytes constitute the majority of hepatic cells, and play a key role in controlling systemic innate immunity, via pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) and by synthesizing complement and acute phase proteins. Leishmania infantum, a protozoan parasite that causes human and canine leishmaniasis, infects liver by establishing inside the Kupffer cells. The current study proposes the elucidation of […]
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Canine neutrophils cooperate with macrophages in the early stages of Leishmania infantum in vitro infection

  • Autores: Pereira MA, Alexandre-Pires G, Câmara M, Santos M, Martins C, Rodrigues A, Adriana J, Passero LFD, Pereira da Fonseca I, Santos-Gomes G
  • Ano de Publicação: 2019
  • Journal: Parasite Immunology
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30735568

Leishmania infantum is the aetiological agent of human visceral leishmaniasis and canine leishmaniasis, both systemic and potentially fatal diseases. Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) are the first cells to phagocyte this parasite at the inoculation site, but macrophages (MØ) are the definitive host cells, ensuring parasite replication. The interaction between dog MØ, PMN and L infantum promastigotes was […]
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Intracellular and extracellular effector activity of mouse neutrophils in response to cutaneous and visceral Leishmania parasites

  • Autores: Valério-Bolas A, Pereira M, Alexandre-Pires G, Santos-Mateus D, Rodrigues A, Rafael-Fernandes M, Gabriel A, Passero F, Santos-Gomes G
  • Ano de Publicação: 2019
  • Journal: Cellular Immunology
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30424873

Neutrophils are short-lived phagocytic cells equipped with several receptors for pathogen recognition and phagocytosis and have intracellular and extracellular effector mechanisms that can inactivate pathogens. Leishmaniases are diseases caused by different species of Leishmania that mainly afflicts poorer populations of tropical and subtropical regions and immunocompromised individuals. Thus, the present study aims to investigate the […]
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Canine neutrophils activate effector mechanisms in response to Leishmania infantum

  • Autores: Alexandre-Pires G, da Fonseca IP, Martins C, Passero F, Pereira M, Rocha H, Rodrigues A, Santos A, Santos M, Santos-Gomes G, Santos-Mateus D, Tomas A, Valério-Bolas A
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: Veterinary Parasitology
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29173534

Canine leishmaniosis caused by L. infantum is a severe zoonotic disease. Although macrophages are the definitive host cells, neutrophils are the first cells to encounter the parasite soon after its inoculation in the dermis by the phlebotomine vector. To study the interaction of dog neutrophils and L. infantum promastigotes, blood neutrophils were isolated from healthy […]
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Leishmania infantum antigens modulate memory cell subsets of liver resident T lymphocyte

  • Autores: Alexandre-Pires G, Claro M, Martins C, Pereira da Fonseca I, Pereira MA, Rafael-Fernandes M, Rodrigues A, Santos-Gomes G, Santos-Mateus D, Tomás AM, Valério-Bolas A
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: Immunobiology
  • Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0171298516303564?via%3Dihub

In the recent years, the liver has been recognized as an important immune organ with major regulatory functions and immune memory, adding to the well-described vital metabolic functions. There are evidences from experimental infections performed with visceral Leishmania species that immune responses to parasite infection can be organ-specific. The liver is the compartment of acute […]
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