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Betelvine (Piper betle L.): A comprehensive insight into its ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, and pharmacological, biomedical and therapeutic attributes

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Volume 26, Issue 11, Page 3083-3119, June 2022., 2022
Abstract Piper betle L. (synonym: Piper betel Blanco), or betel vine, an economically and medicinally important cash crop, belongs to the family Piperaceae, often known as the green gold. The plant can be found all over the world and is cultivatedprimarily in South East Asian countries for its beautiful glossy heart‐shaped leaves, which are chewed or ...
Protha Biswas, Uttpal Anand, Suchismita Chatterjee Saha, Nishi Kant, Tulika Mishra, Harison Masih, Ananya Bar, Devendra Kumar Pandey, Niraj Kumar Jha, Madhumita Majumder, Neela Das, Vijaykumar Shivaji Gadekar, Mahipal S. Shekhawat, Manoj Kumar, Radha, Jarosław Proćków, José M. Pérez de la Lastra, Abhijit Dey   +17 more
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Influence of seasonal variation on reported filarial attacks among people living with lymphedema in Ghana

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is a vector-borne neglected tropical disease caused by the filarial nematode parasites that can lead to the disfiguring swelling of the limbs (lymphedema or elephantiasis for late stage) and/or genitalia (hydrocele ...
Alexander Kwarteng, Yarhands Dissou Arthur, John Kanyiri Yamba, Augustina A. Sylverken, Priscilla Kini, Samuel Terkper Ahuno, Ellis Owusu-Dabo   +6 more
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Lymphangiogenesis and lymphatic remodeling induced by filarial parasites: implications for pathogenesis. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2009
Even in the absence of an adaptive immune system in murine models, lymphatic dilatation and dysfunction occur in filarial infections, although severe irreversible lymphedema and elephantiasis appears to require an intact adaptive immune response in human
Sasisekhar Bennuru, Thomas B Nutman
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Eosinophils in filarial infections: Inducers of protection or pathology?

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Filariae are parasitic roundworms, which can cause debilitating diseases such as lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis. Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, and onchocerciasis, commonly referred to as river blindness, can lead to ...
Alexandra Ehrens, Alexandra Ehrens, Achim Hoerauf, Achim Hoerauf, Marc P. Hübner, Marc P. Hübner   +5 more
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Vulval Elephantiasis: A Case Report

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2012
Introduction. Elephantiasis is a chronic manifestation of filariasis; it commonly affects limbs, scrotum, and trunk. Females have lower incidence of filarial infection. Vulval elephantiasis due to filariasis is still rarer.
Harsh Mohan, Bhumika Bisht, Poonam Goel, Geeta Garg   +3 more
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Scroto-perineal hidradenitis suppurativa complicated by giant scrotal elephantiasis

Urology Annals, 2015
Scrotal elephantiasis has been a recognized complication of inguinal node irradiation, filarial infection, tumor involvement and surgical lymphatic destruction, but has rarely been reported in association with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS).
Badr Alharbi, Ahmed Shlash, Khaled Bedaiwi, Qais Al Hooti, Abdulrahman Almohaisen, Saud Shlash, Mohammad Said   +6 more
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Wuchereria bancrofti infection at four primary schools and surrounding communities with no previous blood surveys in northern Uganda: the prevalence after mass drug administrations and a report on suspected non-filarial endemic elephantiasis

Tropical Medicine and Health, 2017
Background A prevalence study of Wuchereria bancrofti infection was carried out in 2014 at 4 study sites in northern Uganda using antigen and microfilaria tests. Each study site consists of a primary school and surrounding communities.
Emmanuel Igwaro Odongo-Aginya, Alex Olia, Kilama Justin Luwa, Eiji Nagayasu, Anna Mary Auma, Geoffrey Egitat, Gerald Mwesigwa, Yoshitaka Ogino, Eisaku Kimura, Toshihiro Horii   +9 more
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Neglected tropical diseases, neglected data sources, and neglected issues. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2007
BACKGROUND: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a so-called neglected tropical disease, currently overshadowed by higher-profile efforts to address malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.
Burton H Singer, Carol D Ryff
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Neglected patients with a neglected disease? A qualitative study of lymphatic filariasis. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2007
BACKGROUND: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a so-called neglected tropical disease, currently overshadowed by higher-profile efforts to address malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.
Myrtle Perera, Margaret Whitehead, David Molyneux, Mirani Weerasooriya, Godfrey Gunatilleke   +4 more
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Wuchereria bancrofti: Unusual Presentation as Pancytopenia [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Wuchereria bancrofti is an endemic filarial nematode spread by a mosquito vector. The clinical manifestations vary from asymptomatic microfilaremeia to lymhoedema.
Mili Jain, Ayush Shukla, Ashutosh Kumar, Rashmi Kushwaha, Uma Shankar Singh   +4 more
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