Chagas Research Worldwide
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Research Spotlight
Laboratorio de Parasitología Molecular
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Bogota DC, Colombia
Our group’s research into Chagas’ disease has been focused on three main areas: the immune response to the parasite, the diagnosis and the intestinal microbiota of insect vectors transmitting the disease.
News
New hope for a neglected disease - Boing Boing (blog)
Three Autoantibodies Appear Common in Chagas' Disease Study finds they may ... - ModernMedicine
Big Help From Big Pharma - Scientific American (blog)
Deplorable lack of healthcare equity in the developing world - Common Ground.ca
Recent Studies
Surveillance of Chagas disease vectors in municipalities of the state of Ceará, Brazil.
Gonçalves TC, Freitas AL, Freitas SP
A new approach for potential drug target discovery through in silico metabolic pathway analysis using Trypanosoma cruzi genome information.
Alves-Ferreira M, Guimarães AC, Capriles PV, Dardenne LE, Degrave WM
Gap junction reduction in cardiomyocytes following transforming growth factor-beta treatment and Trypanosoma cruzi infection.
Waghabi MC, Coutinho-Silva R, Feige JJ, Higuchi Mde L, Becker D, Burnstock G, Araújo-Jorge TC
Inhibition of Trypanosoma cruzi proline racemase affects host-parasite interactions and the outcome of in vitro infection.
Coutinho L, Ferreira MA, Cosson A, Batista MM, Batista Dda G, Minoprio P, Degrave WM, Berneman A, Soeiro Mde N
Detection of matrix metallopeptidase-9-like proteins in Trypanosoma cruzi.
de Melo AC, de Souza EP, Elias CG, Dos Santos AL, Branquinha MH, d'Ãvila-Levy CM, Dos Reis FC, de Araujo Lima AP, de Souza Pereira MC, Meirelles MN, Vermelho AB
