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ReviewParasites & vectors2020

Recent advances on innate immune pathways related to host-parasite cross-talk in cystic and alveolar echinococcosis.

Nayer Mehdizad Bakhtiar, Adel Spotin, Mahmoud Mahami-Oskouei, Ehsan Ahmadpour, Ali Rostami

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Review in Parasites & vectors, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nayer Mehdizad BakhtiarDepartment of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Adel SpotinImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. Adelespotin@gmail.com.
Mahmoud Mahami-OskoueiDepartment of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Ehsan AhmadpourInfectious and Tropical Disease Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Ali RostamiInfectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IRBabol University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) are life-threatening parasitic infections worldwide caused by Echinococcus granulosus (sensu lato) and E. multilocularis, respectively. Very little is known about the factors affecting innate susceptibility and resistance to infection with Echinococcus spp. Although benzimidazolic drugs against CE and AE have definitively improved the treatment of these cestodes; however, the lack of successful control campaigns, including the EG95 vaccine, at a continental level indicates the importance of generating novel therapies. This review represents an update on the latest developments in the regulatory functions of innate immune pathways such as apoptosis, toll-like receptors (TLRs), and inflammasomes against CE and AE. We suggest that apoptosis can reciprocally play a bi-functional role among the host-Echinococcus metabolite relationships in suppressive and survival mechanisms of CE. Based on the available information, further studies are needed to determine whether the orchestrated in silico strategy for designing inhibitors and interfering RNA against anti-apoptotic proteins and TLRs would be effective to improve new treatments as well as therapeutic vaccines against the E. granulosus and E. multilocularis.

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Immunity, InnateAnimalsApoptosisEchinococcosisEchinococcus granulosusEchinococcus multilocularisHumansInflammasomesRNA, Small InterferingToll-Like ReceptorsTumor Suppressor Protein p53VaccinesInflammasomesRNA, Small InterferingToll-Like ReceptorsTumor Suppressor Protein p53VaccinesApoptosisEchinococcus granulosusEchinococcus multilocularisInflammasomeInnate immunityToll-like receptors

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PMID32375891
PMCPMC7204293
OpenAlexW3021259603

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