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Fungal Biomolecules for Food and Pharmaceutical Application

eFood, Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2025.
The review summarizes the diverse roles of fungal biomolecules in the food and pharmaceutical industries and highlights their significant contribution to modern medicine and health‐related fields. ABSTRACT Mushrooms have long been an integral part of human culture and health and are valued for their nutritional and therapeutic properties.
Giancarlo Angeles Flores, Gaia Cusumano, Gokhan Zengin, Roberto Venanzoni, Paola Angelini   +4 more
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Species Identification of Acanthamoeba Strains Isolated from Patients Referring to Farabi Eye Reference Center Using PCR-RFLP Method

Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2014
Introduction: Acanthamoeba is an opportunistic protist, which is ubiquitously distributed in the environment. Infection with Acanthamoeba spp. poses threat to human health, such as, Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) that is a vision-threatening infection of ...
Mir Mostafa Ghamilouie, Zarrintaj Valadkhani, Fariba Khoshzaban   +2 more
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Combating Acanthamoeba spp. cysts: what are the options?

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Acanthamoeba spp. are protist pathogens and causative agents of serious infections including keratitis and granulomatous amoebic encephalitis. Its ability to convert into dormant and highly resistant cysts form limits effectiveness of available ...
Ayaz Anwar, N. Khan, R. Siddiqui
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Can Acanthamoeba keratitis be properly diagnosed without culture in the real-world clinical microbiology laboratory?: a case report

Annals of Clinical Microbiology
Acanthamoeba species are ubiquitous, free-living organisms found in the environment. They can cause a sight-threatening cornea disease, termed Acanthamoeba keratitis, and are often misdiagnosed, causing delayed administration of the correct treatment ...
Bosung Park, Ho Seok Chung, Eun Jeong Won, Heungsup Sung, Mi-Na Kim   +4 more
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In Vitro Evaluation of the Inhibitory Effect of Topical Ophthalmic Agents on Acanthamoeba Viability

Translational Vision Science & Technology, 2019
Purpose To compare the antimicrobial effect of topical anesthetics, antivirals, antibiotics, and biocides on the viability of Acanthamoeba cysts and trophozoites in vitro. Methods Amoebicidal and cysticidal assays were performed against both trophozoites
Wayne Heaselgrave, A. Hamad, Steven John Coles, S. Hau   +3 more
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Environmental factors affecting encystment of P.F.L.A. together with disinfection studies: a thesis is presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]

, 1986
Free living amoebae from the genera Naegleria and Acanthamoeba have been implicated in fatal and several non-fatal infections of the human central nervous system, and other organs. They can be isolated from a worldwide range of environments.
Harvey, Dawn
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The Characterisation of an Adrenergic Signalling System Involved in the Encystment of the Ocular Pathogen Acanthamoeba spp. [PDF]

, 2016
The aim of this study was to identify and characterise the receptor system involved in controlling encystment in Acanthamoeba using specific agonists and antagonists and to examine whether endogenous stores of catecholamines are produced by the organism.
Abel, Akins, Blum, Butcher, Byers, Clarke, Clarke, Coppi, Cordingley, Dart, Duguid, Elder, Frederick, Fuyu, Gessat, Harmar, Heilmeyer, Hughes, Janakidevi, Kilvington, Kitzmann, Lorenzo-Morales, Marciano-Cabral, Nagatsu, Neff, Neff, Ogbunude, Ong, Radford, Raizada, Riley, Romani, Srivastava, Srivastava, Tu, Verma, Verma, Verma, Weisman, Xu   +39 more
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Influence of the PDMS substrate stiffness on the adhesion of Acanthamoeba castellanii

Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2014
Background: Mechanosensing of cells, particularly the cellular response to substrates with different elastic properties, has been discovered in recent years, but almost exclusively in mammalian cells.
Sören B. Gutekunst, Carsten Grabosch, Alexander Kovalev, Stanislav N. Gorb, Christine Selhuber-Unkel   +4 more
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Acanthamoeba in Southeast Asia – Overview and Challenges

Korean Journal of Parasitology, 2019
Acanthamoeba, one of free-living amoebae (FLA), remains a high risk of direct contact with this protozoan parasite which is ubiquitous in nature and man-made environment.
Chooseel Bunsuwansakul, T. Mahboob, Kruawan Hounkong, Sawanya Laohaprapanon, Sukhuma Chitapornpan, S. Jawjit, A. Yasiri, S. Barusrux, K. Bunluepuech, N. Sawangjaroen, Cristina C. Salibay, Chalermpon Kaewjai, M. de Lourdes Pereira, V. Nissapatorn   +13 more
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Acanthamoeba castellanii (genotype T4) stimulates the production of interleukin-10 as well as pro-inflammatory cytokines in THP-1 cells, human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and human monocyte-derived macrophages [PDF]

, 2016
Free-living amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba can cause severe and chronic infections in humans, mainly localized in immune privileged sites, as the brain and the eye.
Cano, Antonella, Cappuccinelli, Piero, Delogu, Giuseppe, Erre, Giuseppe, Fiori, Pier Luigi, Henriquez, Fiona L., Mattana, Antonella, Roberts, Craig W., Sanna, Manuela   +8 more
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