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Venomous secretions from marine snails of the Terebridae family target acetylcholine receptors [PDF]

, 2013
Venoms from cone snails (Conidae) have been extensively studied during the last decades, but those from other members of the suborder Toxoglossa, such as of Terebridae and Turridae superfamilies attracted less interest so far. Here, we report the effects
Kauferstein, Silke, Kendel, Yvonne, Kurz, Alexander, Mebs, Dietrich, Melaun, Christian, Nicke, Annette, Peigneur, Steve, Tytgat, Jan, Wunder, Cora   +8 more
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Identification and Pilot Evaluation of Salivary Peptides from Anopheles albimanus as Biomarkers for Bite Exposure and Malaria Infection in Colombia

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020
Insect saliva induces significant antibody responses associated with the intensity of exposure to bites and the risk of disease in humans. Several salivary biomarkers have been characterized to determine exposure intensity to Old World Anopheles mosquito
Berlin Londoño-Renteria, P. Dramé, J. Montiel, A. Vásquez, Alberto Tobón-Castaño, Marissa Taylor, Lucrecia Vizcaino, A. Lenhart   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Saliva as a diagnostic tool in soccer: a scoping review [PDF]

PeerJ
Background A high-performance sport like soccer requires training strategies that aim to reach peak performance at the right time for the desired competitions.
Joyce Ferreira, Manuel Jimenez, Agatha Cerqueira, Joana Rodrigues da Silva, Bruno Souza, Lucas Berard, Andre L.L. Bachi, Naile Dame-Teixeira, Neide Coto, Debora Heller   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Innate Antimicrobial Defense of Skin and Oral Mucosa

Antibiotics, 2020
This special issue intends to review and update our understanding of the antimicrobial defense mechanisms of the skin and oral cavity. These two environments are quite different in terms of water, pH, and nutrient availability, but have some common ...
Philip W. Wertz, Sarah de Szalay
doaj   +1 more source

Data-mining the FlyAtlas online resource to identify core functional motifs across transporting epithelia [PDF]

, 2013
<p>Background Comparative analysis of tissue-specific transcriptomes is a powerful technique to uncover tissue functions. Our FlyAtlas.org provides authoritative gene expression levels for multiple tissues of Drosophila melanogaster (1).
Chintapalli, V.R., Davies, S.A., Dow, J.A.T., Herzyk, P., Wang, J.   +4 more
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Detection of Grb-2-related Adaptor Protein Gene (GRAP) and Peptide Molecule in Salivary Glands of MRL/lpr Mice and Patients with Sjögren's Syndrome [PDF]

Journal of International Medical Research, 2004
The pathogenesis of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is poorly understood. In this study we used an in-house mouse spleen cDNA microarray to analyse genes in spleens from MRL/lpr (an SS mouse model) mice. We have previously demonstrated that GRAP genes were up-regulated in salivary glands of the same mice.
H, Shiraiwa, M, Takei, T, Yoshikawa, T, Azuma, M, Kato, K, Mitamura, T, Ueki, A, Kida, T, Horie, N, Seki, S, Sawada   +10 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Sialome of a generalist lepidopteran herbivore: identification of transcripts and proteins from Helicoverpa armigera labial salivary glands.

PLoS ONE, 2011
Although the importance of insect saliva in insect-host plant interactions has been acknowledged, there is very limited information on the nature and complexity of the salivary proteome in lepidopteran herbivores.
Maria de la Paz Celorio-Mancera, Juliette Courtiade, Alexander Muck, David G Heckel, Richard O Musser, Heiko Vogel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterisation and expression of SPLUNC2, the human orthologue of rodent parotid secretory protein [PDF]

, 2009
We recently described the Palate Lung Nasal Clone (PLUNC) family of proteins as an extended group of proteins expressed in the upper airways, nose and mouth.
A Walz, Alec S. High, B Haigh, C Geetha, C Geetha, C Plummer, C. W. Ian Douglas, CD Bingle, CD Bingle, CD Bingle, CD Bingle, CD Bingle, Colin D. Bingle, CP Robinson, EJ Helmerhorst, Frances A. Barnes, H Shiba, Hayley Lunn, HO Madsen, L Bingle, L Bingle, L Mirels, L Mirels, Lynne Bingle, MA Campos, Maslinda Musa, P Ramachandran, P Shaw, PA Vargas, R Vitorino, RD Emes, Simon S. Cross, Steve Webster, SU Gorr, T Guo, TT Wheeler, TT Wheeler, W Khovidhunkit, WD Ball, WL Siqueira, WL Siqueira, WM Weston   +41 more
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Putative Antimicrobial Peptides of the Posterior Salivary Glands from the Cephalopod Octopus vulgaris Revealed by Exploring a Composite Protein Database

Antibiotics, 2020
Cephalopods, successful predators, can use a mixture of substances to subdue their prey, becoming interesting sources of bioactive compounds. In addition to neurotoxins and enzymes, the presence of antimicrobial compounds has been reported. Recently, the
D. Almeida, D. Domínguez-Pérez, A. Matos, G. Agüero-Chapín, H. Osório, V. Vasconcelos, A. Campos, A. Antunes   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Synthetic peptides as a novel approach for detecting antibodies against sand fly saliva.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BACKGROUND:Hosts repeatedly bitten by sand flies develop antibodies against sand fly saliva and screening of these immunoglobulins can be employed to estimate the risk of Leishmania transmission, to indicate the feeding preferences of sand flies, or to ...
Michal Sima, Blanka Ferencova, Tapan Bhattacharyya, Michael A Miles, Sergey V Litvinov, Asrat Hailu, Gad Baneth, Petr Volf   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source