Nematoda: Filarial Nematodes

Kenneth M. Pfarr, Kerstin Fischer, Achim Hoerauf, Involvement of Toll-like receptor 4 in the embryogenesis of the rodent filaria Litomosoides sigmodontis Medical Microbiology and Immunology. ,vol. 192, pp. 53- 56 ,(2003) , 10.1007/S00430-002-0159-5

Lars Volkmann, Odile Bain, Michael Saeftel, Sabine Specht, Kerstin Fischer, Frank Brombacher, Klaus I. Matthaei, Achim Hoerauf, Murine filariasis: interleukin 4 and interleukin 5 lead to containment of different worm developmental stages. Medical Microbiology and Immunology. ,vol. 192, pp. 23- 31 ,(2003) , 10.1007/S00430-002-0155-9

Edward Mitre, Thomas B. Nutman, Basophils, basophilia and helminth infections. Chemical immunology and allergy. ,vol. 90, pp. 141- 156 ,(2006) , 10.1159/000088886

Norbert W. Brattig, Chiara Bazzocchi, Carsten J. Kirschning, Norbert Reiling, Dietrich W. Büttner, Fabrizio Ceciliani, Frank Geisinger, Hubertus Hochrein, Martin Ernst, Hermann Wagner, Claudio Bandi, Achim Hoerauf, The Major Surface Protein of Wolbachia Endosymbionts in Filarial Nematodes Elicits Immune Responses through TLR2 and TLR4 Journal of Immunology. ,vol. 173, pp. 437- 445 ,(2004) , 10.4049/JIMMUNOL.173.1.437

Marina N. Torrero, Marc P. Hübner, David Larson, Hajime Karasuyama, Edward Mitre, Basophils amplify type 2 immune responses, but do not serve a protective role, during chronic infection of mice with the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis. Journal of Immunology. ,vol. 185, pp. 7426- 7434 ,(2010) , 10.4049/JIMMUNOL.0903864

Matthew D. Taylor, Laetitia LeGoff, Anjanette Harris, Eva Malone, Judith E. Allen, Rick M. Maizels, Removal of Regulatory T Cell Activity Reverses Hyporesponsiveness and Leads to Filarial Parasite Clearance In Vivo The Journal of Immunology. ,vol. 174, pp. 4924- 4933 ,(2005) , 10.4049/JIMMUNOL.174.8.4924

K. M. PFARR, A. Y. DEBRAH, S. SPECHT, A. HOERAUF, Filariasis and lymphoedema Parasite Immunology. ,vol. 31, pp. 664- 672 ,(2009) , 10.1111/J.1365-3024.2009.01133.X

P'ng Loke, Meera G Nair, John Parkinson, David Guiliano, Mark Blaxter, Judith E Allen, IL-4 dependent alternatively-activated macrophages have a distinctive in vivo gene expression phenotype BMC Immunology. ,vol. 3, pp. 7- 7 ,(2002) , 10.1186/1471-2172-3-7

R M Maizels, J E Allen, R A Lawrence, J Osborne, Adult and microfilarial stages of the filarial parasite Brugia malayi stimulate contrasting cytokine and Ig isotype responses in BALB/c mice Journal of Immunology. ,vol. 153, pp. 1216- 1224 ,(1994)

Amy G. Hise, Katrin Daehnel, Illona Gillette-Ferguson, Eun Cho, Helen F. McGarry, Mark J. Taylor, Douglas T. Golenbock, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, James W. Kazura, Eric Pearlman, Innate Immune Responses to Endosymbiotic Wolbachia Bacteria in Brugia malayi and Onchocerca volvulus Are Dependent on TLR2, TLR6, MyD88, and Mal, but Not TLR4, TRIF, or TRAM Journal of Immunology. ,vol. 178, pp. 1068- 1076 ,(2007) , 10.4049/JIMMUNOL.178.2.1068