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Carcinogenic Ability of Schistosoma Haematobium Possibly through Oncogenic Muta...
Botelho, Mónica C.; Veiga, Isabel; Oliveira, Paula A.; Lopes, Carlos; Teixeira, Manuel; Costa, José M Correia da; Machado, José C.Schistosoma haematobium is a parasitic flatworm that infects millions of people, mostly in the developing world, and is associated with high incidence of bladder cancer, although why is not clear. Previously, we have used CD-1 mice to show that Schistosoma haematobium total antigen (Sh) has a carcinogenic ability. Sh intravesically instillation induced the development of several urothelial lesions, namely nodul...
Granulomatous-like immune reaction and hepatic fibrosis induced by Schistosoma ...
Botelho, Mónica C.; Oliveira, Paula A.; Vieira, Paulo; Delgado, Maria de Lurdes; Lourenço, Ligia; Lopes, Carlos; Machado, José C .Golden hamsters were inoculated with Schistosoma haematobium cercariae to examine histological lesions at different time points over an 18 month period of infection. Hamsters were sacrificed 26 weeks and 82 weeks after inoculation. The parasite was found in the blood and in the liver of infected animals as was expected, but we found exclusively male worms, no female worms nor eggs. Interestingly we observed une...
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