Exposure to ozone gases in pulp mills and the onset of rhinitis (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: Rhinitis is a common upper respiratory disease influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. It is also accepted that allergic rhinitis may precede asthma, a disease with more serio
Genetic susceptibility to occupational exposures (Publications)
Because of their high prevalence in the general population, genetic variants that determine susceptibility to environmental exposures may contribute greatly to the development of occupational diseases
Evidence that <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> chromosome end clusters are cross-linked by protein and are the sites of both virulence gene silencing... (Publications)
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum undergoes antigenic variation through allelic exclusion and variant expression of surface proteins encoded by the var gene family. Regulation of var genes is
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> erythrocyte membrane protein-1 specifically suppresses early production of host interferon-gamma (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein-1 (PfEMP-1) is a variable antigen expressed by P. falciparum, the malarial parasite. PfEMP-1, present on the surface of infected host erythrocytes, m
Inhibition of dendritic cell maturation by malaria is dose dependent and does not require<em> Plasmodium falciparum</em> erythrocyte membrane protein... (Publications)
Red blood cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum (iRBCs) have been shown to modulate maturation of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DCs), interfering with their ability to activate T cells.
Alterations in local chromatin environment are involved in silencing and activation of subtelomeric var genes in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1), encoded by the var gene family, undergoes antigenic variation and plays an important role in chronic infection and severe malaria. Only a