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Kamiya, Shiho; Takabatake, Noriyuki; Fujii, Kei; Okamura, Masashi; Iseki, Hiroshi; Yokoyama, Naoaki; Igarashi, Ikuo. |
Babesia spp. are major hemoprotozoan parasites in animals. Exoantigens, which are soluble antigens released by the parasites during their asexual development, have been successfully applied for the development of a vaccine against babesiosis. In this study, we examined the ability of exoantigens to induce protective immunity in mice against a rodent Babesia parasite, Babesia rodhaini. The BALB/c mice immunized with the blood plasma fraction of B. rodhaini-infected mice (B. rodhaini exoantigens) showed a significant decrease in the lethal rate when challenged with B. rodhaini. Western blot analysis with anti-B. rodhaini exoantigen immune serum specifically detected at least eleven proteins in the lysate of B. rodhaini-infected erythrocytes. Next, a cDNA... |
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Palavras-chave: Babesiosis; Babesia rodhaini; Exoantigen; Protective effect; Mice. |
Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/149 |
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Fujii, Kei; Yokoyama, Naoaki; Takabatake, Noriyuki; Suzuki, Hiroshi; Xuan, Xuenan; Igarashi, Ikuo; 横山, 直明; 鈴木, 宏志; 玄, 学南; 五十嵐, 郁男. |
In hemoprotozoa,gene transfer technology provides an important tool to aid in the functional study of parasite genes. In this study,a transfer vector containing the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) gene laid between the Toxoplasma gondii GRAI promoter region and the GRA2 polyA signal region was constructed and transfected into the in vitro culture of Babesia boνis by the electroporation method.On the first and second days post-transfection,clear positive fluorescences were detected in some parasite bodies, indicating the successful expression of the EGFP gene controlled by the GRA-1 promoter in B. bovis. However, the positive parasites were not ubiquitous and finally disappeared until the forth day post-transfection. This is the first time that... |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/631 |
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