James Venturini

• Abstract

  Dermatophytosis is one of the most common human infections affecting both immunocompetent individuals and immunocompromised patients, in whom the disease is more aggressive and can reach deep tissues. Over the last decades, cases of deep dermatophytosis have increased and the dermatophyte-host interplay remains poorly investigated. Pattern recognition molecules, such as Toll-like receptor…

  TLR2-/- mice display increased clearance of dermatophyte Trichophyton mentagrophytes in the setting of hyperglycemia, PUB.ART

• Abstract

  Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by species of the genus Leishmania. It is a public health problem in civil war, poor and developing countries, including Brazil. Due to their complex abilities to proliferate into macrophages of vertebrate hosts and survive in the digestive tract of sand fly vector, Leishmania spp. are an important source of infections in immunocompetent as we…

  Evaluation of immunomodulatory effect of crude extracts of Davilla nitida Vahl, Eugenia speciosa Cambess and Neea theifera Oerst in murine BMDM infected with Leishmania infantum, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). Observations in patients and in experimental models suggest that fungi and their metabolites may contribute to the pathogenesis of MS. Fungal toxins, such as gliotoxin, a metabolite produced by various species of the genera Candida and Aspergillus, are able to reach the CNS and to determ…

  Effect of Candida albicans infection on experimental autoimmune encephalitis development: determination of T-lymphocyte subsets, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Mucormycosis is a severe fungal infection, caused by fungus from the order Mucorales. The genus Rhizopus is responsible for 70% of the cases. It is the third most common of invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised patients, with mortality rates over 90%. Despite the importance of the disease, few reports were carried out in order to study immunological aspect involved in the Rhizop…

  Contribution to the study of mucormycosis: development of an experimental murine model, BP.IC

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