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Using RNA interference in Schistosoma mansoniRita Bhardwaj
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, MA, USA
Methods Mol Biol 764:223-39. 2011..Given the abundance of schistosome transcriptome and genome sequences now available, RNAi technology has the potential to rapidly expand analysis of the roles and importance of the genes of this globally important parasite...
Tegumental phosphodiesterase SmNPP-5 is a virulence factor for schistosomesRita Bhardwaj
Molecular Helminthology Laboratory, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Grafton, MA 01536, USA
Infect Immun 79:4276-84. 2011..These results demonstrate that SmNPP-5 is a virulence factor for schistosomes...
RNA interference in schistosomes: machinery and methodologyGreice Krautz-Peterson
Molecular Helminthology Laboratory, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Grafton, MA 01536, USA
Parasitology 137:485-95. 2010..These analyses, and a review of the literature, permit us to derive and present here a draft of potential RNAi pathways in schistosomes...
Characterization of schistosome tegumental alkaline phosphatase (SmAP)Rita Bhardwaj
Molecular Helminthology Laboratory, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5:e1011. 2011..This notion does not rule out other potential functions for the adenosine generated e.g. in parasite nutrition...
Purinergic signaling and immune modulation at the schistosome surface?Rita Bhardwaj
Molecular Helminthology Laboratory, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Grafton, MA 01536, USA
Trends Parasitol 25:256-60. 2009..We propose this as one mechanism by which schistosomes prevent their hosts from focusing immunological mediators in their vicinity...
