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Maria Rosaria Bruno; Annapaola Cannizzaro; Angelo Olori; Francesca Tombolini; Federica Angelosanto; Francesco Sinopoli; Biagio Maria Bruni; Francesco Casalinuovo; Antonella Campopiano
phagocytosis, etc ; animal age; asbestos; carcinogenicity; durability; environment; humans; lungs; macrophages; principal component analysis; sheep; Italy; Show all 12 Subjects
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... In Calabria (Southern Italy) naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) mainly occurs in the ophiolitic sequences cropping in the Mount Reventino area. The most common type of asbestos detected was the amphibole tremolite; fibrous antigorite and minor chrysotile were also found. The development of asbestos-related diseases depends on, among other things, the morphological characteristics of fibers, length ...
... As the most typical example of mRNA variable splicing, Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule (Dscam) can produce a large number of mRNA isomers. It plays an important role not only in the nervous system, but also in the immune system. In Eriocheir sinensis, the extracellular region of Dscam has three variable domains, which can produce 25, 34 and 18 exons and encode the N-terminal region of immunog ...
... The purpose of this study was to evaluate effects of dietary quercetin (Que) on growth performance and disease resistance mechanism of Litopenaeus vannamei. Shrimp were randomly divided into 4 groups, with 3 replicants in each group and 70 shrimp in each replicants. The contents of Que. in the four groups were 0, 0.25, 0.5 and 1 g kg⁻¹, respectively. Samples were taken after 56 days, followed by a ...
... Selection of the appropriate strain for particular aquatic animals is necessary for the desirable benefits of probiotics application in aquaculture, however, it is not very clear whether fish-derived probiotics could provide beneficial effects on invertebrates. In the present study, two fish-derived probiotics, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, and Lactococcus lactis, were administrated as feed additive ...
... Contamination of V. parahaemolyticus in raw product and culture areas of Crassostrea gigas has been a concern in food hygiene and infectious diseases in the shellfish aquaculture industry for decades. Although numerous researchers have presently objective of decreasing pathogen microorganism contaminated load in raw oysters or genetics improvement for prevention, the in-depth information at the mo ...
phagocytosis, etc ; fluorescence; macrophages; molecular weight; pH; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Methods for optical tracking of pathogen–host interactions are of biomedical significance. We herein have reported a high molecular weight pH sensor (Den-pH) that is assembled in bacteria and then stably trapped in bacteria irrespective of bacterial membrane potentials. Endowed with acidity-triggered red fluorescence, Den-pH allows signal-on tracking of S. aureus in phagocytosis by macrophages. In ...
phagocytosis, etc ; autoantibodies; complement; macrophages; monocytes; neutrophils; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Autoimmune cytopenias are a consequence of autoantibodies that target blood cell lineages and mark them for their accelerated destruction, mostly through phagocytosis by monocytes and macrophages and complement activation. Neutrophils, although equipped with Fc and complement receptors and effector mechanisms that are critical in other autoimmune conditions, remained long overlooked. Recent report ...
phagocytosis, etc ; Cnidaria; Miozoa; confocal microscopy; genes; nematocysts; Show all 6 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Intracellular sequestration requires specialized cellular and molecular mechanisms allowing a predator to retain and use specific organelles that once belonged to its prey. Little is known about how common cellular mechanisms, like phagocytosis, can be modified to selectively internalize and store foreign structures. One form of defensive sequestration involves animals that sequester s ...
Stefanny Christie Monteiro Titon; Vania Regina Assis; Braz Titon Junior; Gabriela Sarti Kinker; Nicolle Gilda Teixeira de Queiroz Hazarbassanov; Alan Siqueira Lima; Cristina de Oliveira Massoco; Pedro A. Fernandes; Fernando Ribeiro Gomes; Regina P. Markus
phagocytosis, etc ; assets; blood; cell structures; herpetology; peritoneum; zymosan; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Phagocytosis is a primary and highly conserved mechanism for clearing the extracellular milieu from pathogens and debris. In amphibians, the lack of antibodies for characterizing the different phenotypes of phagocytic cells has impaired the study of the phagocytic process. We used conventional and flowsight cytometry to determine immune cells' phagocytic activity from the blood and peritoneum of t ...
phagocytosis, etc ; curcumin; cytotoxicity; lungs; macrophages; membrane potential; mitochondrial membrane; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Curcumin has been used for chronic lung diseases management due to its diversified molecular actions. However, the potential cytotoxicity which occurs in cells following the exposure to high concentrations of curcumin has been overlooked. This study evaluated the toxic events of curcumin nanoparticles (Cur-NPs) with alterable surface polarity in alveolar macrophages (NR8383). We aimed to establish ...
phagocytosis, etc ; drugs; fullerene; macrophages; microscopy; photochemotherapy; ultrastructure; water solubility; Show all 8 Subjects
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... C₆₀-fullerenes have unique potential in antiviral, drug delivery, photodynamic therapy and other biomedical applications. However, little is known about their effects on macrophage surface morphology and ultrastructure. Here by using contact-free scanning ion conductance microscopy (SICM), we investigated the effects of two water-soluble fullerenes on the surface ultrastructure and function of mac ...
phagocytosis, etc ; Plasmodium falciparum; erythrocytes; malaria; merozoites; parasitology; vaccine development; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Protective antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum merozoite antigens, including EBA-175, can inhibit erythrocyte invasion. New data from Musasia et al. indicate that these antibodies can also trigger antibody-dependent phagocytosis of ring-infected and uninfected erythrocytes and that this correlates with protection from malaria. This provides a new pathway for vaccine design. ...
phagocytosis, etc ; atherosclerosis; death; diabetes; disease progression; hemolytic anemia; humans; longevity; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Red blood cells (RBC) are the most abundant circulating cell of the human body. RBC are constantly exposed to multiple stresses in the circulation, leading to molecular and structural impairments and death. The physiological process of RBC senescence or ageing is referred to as eryptosis. At the end of their lifespan, aged RBC are recognized and removed from the blood by professional phagocytes vi ...
phagocytosis, etc ; Morchella; glucose; interleukin-6; mannose; methylation; molecular weight; polysaccharides; Show all 8 Subjects
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... A novel polysaccharide (MSP-1) was isolated from the fruiting body of Morchella sextelata and purified using DEAE-52 and Sephadex G-75. The molecular weight of MSP-1 was 1.17 × 10⁴ Da, as detected by HPLC analysis. The monosaccharide composition of MSP-1 was mannose and glucose at a ratio of 1.00: 1.25. Methylation and NMR results revealed that the backbone of MSP-1 was composed of →4)-β-D-Manp-(1 ...
phagocytosis, etc ; Camelus dromedarius; camels; eosinophils; flow cytometry; monocytes; neutrophils; research; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The present study investigated the composition of blood leukocytes in the Magateer and Majaheem camel breeds using immune cell labeling and flow cytometry. In addition, the phagocytosis activity of blood neutrophils and monocytes were compared between the two breeds. Although the total number of leukocytes did not differ significantly between the two camel breeds, a significantly higher fraction a ...
phagocytosis, etc ; Alzheimer disease; antigen presentation; central nervous system; exosomes; neuroglia; secretion; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Considerable evidence links the microglial transmembrane receptor TREM2 to the progression of Alzheimer's disease through its involvement in Aβ phagocytosis by microglia. While previous studies have mainly focused on the phagocytic regulation of microglia itself, the antigen presentation of microglial exosomes in the process of immunity has been less investigated. Here, we identified TREM2 express ...
phagocytosis, etc ; cytokines; data collection; inflammation; macrophage activation; macrophages; microRNA; protein synthesis; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Macrophage activation is an essential component of systemic chronic inflammation and chronic inflammatory diseases. Emerging evidence implicates miR-185-5p in chronic inflammation diseases. However, the regulatory role of miR-185-5p in macrophage pro-inflammatory activation has not been studied previously. Here, we identified that miR-185-5p was one of the top genes and effectively downregulated i ...
phagocytosis, etc ; acidification; analytical chemistry; endosomes; fluorescence; fluorescent dyes; lysosomes; pH; phagosomes; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Acidification of intracellular vesicles, such as endosomes and lysosomes, is a key pathway for regulating the function of internal proteins. Most conventional methods of measuring pH are not satisfactory for quantifying the pH inside these vesicles. Here, we investigated the molecular requirements for a fluorescence probe to measure the intravesicular acidic pH in living cells by means of fluoresc ...
phagocytosis, etc ; bacterial adhesion; exopolysaccharides; extracellular matrix; hydrophobicity; macrophages; mice; mucins; probiotics; splenocytes; Show all 10 Subjects
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... The probiotic extracellular matrix components (ECM) have been considered as an important factor in eliciting the beneficial roles of the bacteria. The study involved the growth phase–dependent extraction of the surface layer protein (SLP) and cell-bound exopolysaccharide (EPS-b) from novel Limosilactobacillus fermentum (MTCC 5898). Both SLP and EPS-b were optimally extracted at the late logarithmi ...
phagocytosis, etc ; Eriocheir sinensis; antibacterial properties; crabs; fish; hemocytes; immune response; lectins; shellfish; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Ficolin, a member of the fibrinogen-related proteins family (FREPs), functions as a pattern recognition receptor (PRR) in vertebrates and in invertebrates as a novel lectin. In this study, we discovered the Ficolin homolog of Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis), which we named EsFicolin. The obtained sequence showed that it has a highly conserved C-terminal fibrinogen-related domain (FReD) an ...