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Home / Archives for Martins C

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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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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Fluorimetric methods for analysis of permeability, drug transport kinetics, and inhibition of the ABCB1 membrane transporter

  • Autores: Amaral L, Armada A, Martins C, Molnar J, Rodrigues AS, Spengler G, Viveiros M
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: Cancer Drug Resistance
  • Link: https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007%2F978-1-4939-3347-1_7%20

The cell membrane P-glycoprotein (P-gp; MDR1, ABCB1) is an energy-dependent efflux pump that belongs to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) family of transporters, and has been associated with drug resistance in eukaryotic cells. Multidrug resistance (MDR) is related to an increased expression and function of the ABCB1 (P-gp) efflux pump that often causes chemotherapeutic failure in […]
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A new cloning system based on the OprI lipoprotein for the production of recombinant bacterial cell wall-derived immunogenic formulations.

  • Autores: Alves S, Basto AP, Cornelis P, Leitão A, Martins C, Piedade J, Ramalho R, Soares H
  • Journal: Journal of Biotechnology
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=A+new+cloning+system+based+on+the+OprI+lipoprotein+for+the+production+of+recombinant+bacterial+cell+wall-derived+immunogenic+formulations

The conjugation of antigens with ligands of pattern recognition receptors (PRR) is emerging as a promising strategy for the modulation of specific immunity. Here, we describe a new Escherichia coli system for the cloning and expression of heterologous antigens in fusion with the OprI lipoprotein, a TLR ligand from the Pseudomonas aeruginosa outer membrane (OM).
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