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Adaptation of Echinococcus Multilocularis to Oxidative Stress Depends on EmPDK‐Mediated Metabolic Reprogramming

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Metabolic adaption presents a vital survival strategy for E. multilocularis. This study identifies EmPDK as a central metabolic regulator governing glucose metabolic reprogramming. Oxidative stress activates EmHIF1α to induce EmPDK expression. Mechanistic characterization reveals this ROS/EmHIF1α/EmPDK axis drives glycolytic reprogramming to sustain ...
Huijuan Wang, Zhijian Xu, Ye Tian, Yao Zhang, Zhe Cheng, Yanhai Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Planarian (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) Diversity and Molecular Markers: A New View of an Old Group

Diversity, 2014
Planarians are a group of free-living platyhelminths (triclads) best-known largely due to long-standing regeneration and pattern formation research. However, the group’s diversity and evolutionary history has been mostly overlooked.
Marta Álvarez-Presas, Marta Riutort
doaj   +1 more source

Comprehensive Evaluation of Bisphenol A Toxicity Reveals Neurobehavioral, Metabolic, and Reproductive Impairments in Girardia tigrina

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bisphenol A (BPA), a common industrial chemical used in plastics and consumer products, is increasingly detected in aquatic environments, raising serious concerns about its potential ecological impacts. This study evaluated the sublethal and acute toxic effects of BPA on the freshwater planarian Girardia tigrina, a recognized model for ...
Raquel de Jesus Selestrino, Felipe Schaly, Welligton Luciano Braguini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of schistosome tegumental alkaline phosphatase (SmAP).

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
Schistosomes are parasitic platyhelminths that currently infect over 200 million people globally. The parasites can live for years in a putatively hostile environment - the blood of vertebrates. We have hypothesized that the unusual schistosome tegument (
Rita Bhardwaj, Patrick J Skelly
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The Employment of Hydrogen Peroxide in Water Disinfection Poses a Threat to Aquatic Ecosystems Because of Its Toxicity to Nontarget Organisms

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hydrogen peroxide is widely used in water and wastewater treatment, particularly in advanced oxidation processes that aid in the degradation of compounds and microbial disinfection. Despite concerns about potential environmental contamination, its impact on freshwater ecosystems remains inadequately studied.
Letícia Queiroz Almeida, Thayrine Dias Carlos, Leydiane Barbosa Bezerra, Rone S. Barbosa, Nelson Luís Gonçalves Dias Souza, Douglas Henrique Pereira, Renato Almeida Sarmento, Grasiele Soares Cavallini   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Schistosomal Cervical Myelopathy

Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2018
Schistosomiasis is an infectious disease caused by trematode platyhelminths of the genus Schistosoma. The involvement of the cervical spinal cord is rare, with few cases reported in the literature.
Ronald Farias, Kléver Forte de Oliveira, George de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Mendes, Ussânio Mororó Meira   +3 more
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The Embryonic Development of the Cotylean Polyclad Phrikoceros jannetae

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polyclads exhibit distinct developmental modes ranging from direct to indirect development, with several transitional stages also recognised. The existence of an indirect developmental mode in polyclads with a planktonic life history stage in the form of a free‐swimming larva is unique among all free‐living flatworms and makes polyclads a ...
Mehrez Gammoudi, Bernhard Egger, Isabel L. Dittmann, Verónica N. Bulnes, Pavel Tomancak, Abdel Halim Harrath, Johannes Girstmair   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Infection, Coinfection, and Abundance of Intestinal Protozoa Increase the Serum Levels of IFABP2 and TNF-α in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
Protozoa, nematodes, and platyhelminths are of clinical interest due to their role on the modulation of the immune responses. To determine the frequency of infection by intestinal parasites as well as the status of single or mixed infection (coinfection)
Iris Paola Guzmán-Guzmán, Benjamín Nogueda-Torres, Oscar Zaragoza-García, José Eduardo Navarro-Zarza, Olivia Briceño, Gloria Pérez-Rubio, Ramcés Falfán-Valencia, Ilse Adriana Gutiérrez-Pérez, Isela Parra-Rojas   +8 more
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