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Mannose‐binding lectin and vulvovaginal candidiasis

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2005
AbstractObjective: To investigate the effect of mannose‐binding lectin (MBL) gene polymorphism on the immune system and the significance of vaginal MBL concentration in the pathogenesis of vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) and recurrent VVC (rVVC). Patients and methods: Mannose‐binding lectin concentrations in CVL samples from 111 women were collected ...
Zhaohui Liu, Fei Liu, Qinping Liao
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Accessibility of the high-mannose glycans of glycoprotein gp120 from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 probed by in vitro interaction with mannose-binding lectins.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, 2000
The direct interaction of mannose-specific plant lectins with gp120 of HIV-1 was studied by surface plasmon resonance. Inhibition experiments indicated that exposed high mannose type glycans play a key role in the interaction.
C. Astoul, W. Peumans, E. J. M. Damme, Pierre Rougé   +3 more
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Efficiency of mannose-binding plant lectins in controlling a homopteran insect, the red cotton bug.

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2002
Yield losses of different crops due to the attack of various classes of insects are a worldwide problem. Sucking type homopteran pests causing damage to many crop species are not controlled by commonly known insecticidal proteins, namely, Bacillus ...
A. Roy, Santanu Banerjee, Pralay Majumder, Sampa Das   +3 more
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Mannose‐binding lectin levels in children with asthma

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 2005
Mannose‐binding lectin (mbl), one of the important components of innate immunity, can activate the lectin pathway of the complement system. After binding mannose containing carbohydrate structures of foreign antigen, mbl initiates and regulates the inflammatory responses. Asthma is a complex inflammatory disease of the lung involving many components of
S. Halide Akbas, Mesut Coskun, Aysen Uguz, Olcay Yegin, Zafer Berber   +4 more
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Synthesis of high-mannose oligosaccharide analogues through click chemistry: true functional mimics of their natural counterparts against lectins?

Chemistry, 2015
Terminal "high-mannose oligosaccharides" are involved in a broad range of biological and pathological processes, from sperm-egg fusion to influenza and human immunodeficiency virus infections.
Marc François-Heude, Alejandro Méndez‐Ardoy, V. Cendret, P. Lafite, R. Daniellou, C. Ortiz Mellet, J. G. García Fernández, V. Moreau, F. Djedaïni-Pilard   +8 more
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Mannose-binding lectin and meningococcal disease

The Lancet, 1999
Kuijper, E J, Fijen, C A, Dankert, J, Thiel, S   +3 more
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Mannose binding lectin gene polymorphisms and asthma

Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 2007
SummaryBackground Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways. Recently, it has been suggested that complement plays significant roles in asthma. Mannose‐binding lectin (MBL) is one of the key molecules in complement activation pathways that are associated with several infectious and immune disorders.Subjects and method
Xintao Wang, Yoshinori Tanino, Mitsuru Munakata, Takashi Ishida, Junpei Saito, Teizo Fujita   +5 more
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Mannose-Binding Lectins in Cerebrum Development

2003
The nervous system is so complex that it is not ordinarily considered as an interesting model for studying cellular mechanisms. However, its morphology (at least in some well-defined areas) provides essential information because cells are polarised: cell body, axons and dendrites can be easily identified in vivo, an essential property when studies are ...
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Anti-microbial activities of mannose-binding lectin

Biochemical Society Transactions, 2003
Mannose-binding lectin (MBL; also known as mannan-binding lectin) is involved in first-line defence by binding to bacteria, viruses, protozoa and helminths through a pattern-recognition mode of detection and then initiating a range of host responses. Currently, we have been unable to extrapolate from what we know of the biochemistry of MBL binding to ...
Malcolm W. Turner, D.L. Jack
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Mannose-binding lectin genetics: from A to Z

Biochemical Society Transactions, 2008
MBL (mannose-binding lectin) is primarily a liver-derived collagen-like serum protein. It binds sugar structures on micro-organisms and on dying host cells and is one of the four known mediators that initiate activation of the complement system via the lectin pathway.
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