Advances in metabolic profiling of experimental nematode and trematode infections (Publications)
Metabonomics, which is the combination of metabolic profiling of biological samples using spectroscopic methods, together with multivariate data analysis, is a powerful approach for biomarker recovery
Evaluation of ethnobotanically selected Benin medicinal plants for their in vitro antiplasmodial activity (Publications)
Twenty extracts from nine Benin medicinal plants, traditionally used to treat malaria, were screened for in vitro antiplasmodial activity towards Plasmodium falciparum K1 chloroquine resistant and 3D7
The PASTURE project: EU support for the improvement of knowledge about risk factors and preventive factors for atopy in Europe (Publications)
Since January 2002, the European Commission is funding a large project, Protection against Allergy - Study in Rural Environments (PASTURE; contract no. QLK4-2001-00250), under the Fifth Framework Prog
Delayed response and lack of habituation in plasma interleukin-6 to acute mental stress in men (Publications)
Acute mental stress induces a significant increase in plasma interleukin (IL)-6 levels as a possible mechanism for how psychological stress might contribute to atherosclerosis. We investigated whether
Genomic distribution and functional characterisation of two distinct and conserved <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> var gene 5' flanking sequences (Publications)
Approximately 50 highly diverse var genes distributed throughout the haploid genome of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum code for PfEMP1 variants located on the surface of infected erythrocyt
In vitro antiplasmodial activity and cytotoxicity of ethnobotanically selected Ivorian plants (Publications)
Eight extracts from four Ivorian medicinal plants, traditionally used to treat malaria, were tested for their antiplasmodial activity in vitro by assessing their ability to inhibit the uptake of [3H]h
Evaluation of methods for modeling transcription factor sequence specificity (Publications)
Genomic analyses often involve scanning for potential transcription factor (TF) binding sites using models of the sequence specificity of DNA binding proteins. Many approaches have been developed to m
Prophylactic immunisation against traveller's diarrhoea caused by enterotoxin-forming strains of <em>Escherichia coli</em> and against cholera: does... (Publications)
Traveller's diarrhoea (TD) constitutes the most common disease relevant to travel medicine with ETEC as the leading causative pathogen. Cholera is the most serious, but very rare form of TD. ETEC and
Effect of temperature on the development of <em>Schistosoma japonicum</em> within <em>Oncomelania hupensis</em>, and hibernation of <em>O.... (Publications)
The objectives of this investigation were to assess the effect of temperature on the development of Schistosoma japonicum harboured in Oncomelania hupensis and to determine the lowest temperature thre