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Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Facilitate Th Cell Cytokine Responses throughout Schistosoma mansoni Infection

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Structural Requirements for Dihydrobenzoxazepinone Anthelmintics: Actions against Medically Important and Model Parasites: Trichuris muris, Brugia malayi, Heligmosomoides polygyrus, and Schistosoma mansoni

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Modulation of Rumen Microbes Through Extracellular Vesicle Released by the Rumen Fluke Calicophoron daubneyi. 

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Evaluation of two Fasciola hepatica faecal egg counting protocols in sheep and cattle. 

Claire Reigate, Hefin W.Williams, Matthew J.Denwood, Russell M.Morphew, Eurion R.Thomas, Peter M.Brophy. Veterinary Parasitology, Vol. 294, June 2021, 109435.

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Partridge FA, Bataille CJR, Forman R, Marriott AE, Forde-Thomas J, Häberli C, Dinsdale RL, O’Sullivan JDB, Willis NJ, Wynne GM, Whiteland H, Archer J, Steven A, Keiser J, Turner JD, Hoffmann KF, Taylor MJ, Else KJ, Russell AJ, Sattelle DB (2021).

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Characterization of class II fumarase from Schistosoma mansoni provides the molecular basis for selective inhibition.

Cardoso IA, de Souza AKL, Burgess AMG, Chalmers IW, Hoffmann KF, Nonato MC.Int J Biol Macromol. 2021 Apr 1;175:406-421.

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Identifying and validating the presence of Guanine Quadruplexes (G4) within the blood fluke parasite Schistosoma mansoni.

Holly M. Craven, Riccardo Bonsignore, Vasilis Lenis,Nicolo Santi, Daniel Berrar, Martin Swain, Helen Whiteland, Angela Casini, Karl F. Hoffmann (2021). PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, February 18, 2021

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In vitro screening as an anthelmintic discovery pipeline for Calicophoron daubneyi: nutritive media and rumen environment-based approaches.

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The soluble glutathione transferase superfamily: Role of Mu class in Triclabendazole sulphoxide challenge in Fasciola hepatica

Stuart, R., Zwaanswijk, S., MacKintosh, N., Wititkornkul, B., Brophy, P. & Morphew, R., In: Parasitol Res (2021).

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Identification of 6-(piperazin-1-yl)-1,3,5-triazine as a chemical scaffold with broad anti-schistosomal activities.

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Schistosoma mansoni venom allergen-like protein 6 (SmVAL6) maintains tegumental barrier function.

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RNA interference dynamics in juvenile Fasciola hepatica are altered during in vitro growth and development

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Quorum sensing N-Acyl homoserine lactones are a new class of anti-schistosomal

Helen Whiteland, Alessandra Crusco, Lisa W. Bloemberg, Jamie Tibble-Howlings, Josephine Forde-Thomas, Avril Coghlan, Patrick J. Murphy, Karl F. Hoffmann, 19 October 2020, In : PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(10): e0008630.

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Rapid detection of Galba truncatula in water sources on pasture-land using loop-mediated isothermal amplification for control of trematode infections

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Large-scale RNAi screening uncovers therapeutic targets in the parasite Schistosoma mansoni

Jipeng Wang,  Carlos Paz,  Gilda Padalino,  Avril Coghlan,  Zhigang Lu, Irina Gradinaru, Julie N. R. Collins,  Matthew Berriman, Karl F. Hoffmann,  James J. Collins III, 25 Sep 2020, In : Science, vol. 369, Issue 6511, pp. 1649-1653.

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Helminth extracellular vesicles: Great balls of wonder

Hoffmann, KF, Hokke, CH, Loukas, A & Buck, AH 2020, In : International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 621-622.

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Evidence of sequestration of triclabendazole and associated metabolites by extracellular vesicles of Fasciola hepatica

Davis, C., Winters, A., Milic, I., Devitt, A., Cookson, A., Brophy, P. & Morphew, R., 10 Aug 2020, In : Scientific Reports, vol. 10, 11 p., 13445.

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Pilot Evaluation of Two Fasciola hepatica Biomarkers for Supporting Triclabendazole (TCBZ) Efficacy Diagnostics

Collett, C., Morphew, R., Timson, D., Phillips, H. & Brophy, P., 30 Jul 2020, In : Molecules. 25, 15, 3477.

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Novel Equine Faecal Egg Diagnostics: Validation of the FECPAKG2

Tyson, F., Dalesman, S., Brophy, P. & Morphew, R., 23 Jul 2020, In : Animals. 10, 8, 10 p., 1254.

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DC-SIGN mediated internalisation of glycosylated extracellular vesicles from Schistosoma mansoni increases activation of monocyte-derived dendritic cells

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Predatory Organisms with Untapped Biosynthetic Potential: Descriptions of Novel Corallococcus Species C. aberystwythensis sp. nov., C. carmarthensis sp. nov., C. exercitus sp. nov., C. interemptor sp. nov., C. llansteffanensis sp. nov., C. praedator sp. nov., C. sicarius sp. nov., and C. terminator sp. nov

Livingstone, PG, Ingleby, O, Girdwood, S, Cookson, AR, Morphew, RM & Whitworth, DE.  2020 Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 86, no. 2, e01931-19.

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The Synthesis and Glycosidase Inhibitory Activity of Analogues of Tiruchanduramine

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The repositioning of epigenetic probes/inhibitors identifies new anti-schistosomal lead compounds and chemotherapeutic targets.

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Antischistosomal Properties of Sclareol and Its Heck-Coupled Derivatives: Design, Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and Untargeted Metabolomics

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Programmed genome editing of the omega-1 ribonuclease of the blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni

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Schistosoma mansoni venom allergen-like proteins: phylogenetic relationships, stage-specific transcription and tissue localization as predictors of immunological cross-reactivity

Farias, LP, Chalmers, IW, Perally, S, Rofatto, HK, Jackson, CJ, Brown, M, Khouri, MI, Barbosa, MMF, Hensbergen, PJ, Hokke, CH, Leite, LCC & Hoffmann, KF 2019 International Journal for Parasitology.

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The anti-mycobacterial activity of a diterpenoid-like molecule operates through nitrogen and amino acid starvation

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The importance of extracellular vesicle purification for downstream analysis: A comparison of differential centrifugation and size exclusion chromatography for helminth pathogens.

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Smell of Infection: a novel, non-invasive method for detection of fish excretory- secretory proteins.

Pawluk, R. J., Stuart, R., de Leaniz, C. G., Cable, J., Morphew, R. M., Brophy, P. M. and Consuegra S. 2019 In: Journal of Proteome Research.

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Polyomic tools for an emerging livestock parasite, the rumen fluke Calicophoron daubneyi; identifying shifts in rumen functionality

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Combining bioinformatics, cheminformatics, functional genomics and whole organism approaches for identifying epigenetic drug targets in Schistosoma mansoni

Padalino, G., Ferla, S., Brancale, A., Chalmers, I. & Hoffmann, K. 2018 In : International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance.

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An Abeis procera – Derived tetracyclic triterpene containing a steroid-like core and a lactone side chain attenuates in vitro survival of both Fasciola hepatica and Schistosoma mansoni

Whiteland, H., Chakroborty, A., Forde-Thomas, J., Crusco, A., Cookson, A., Hollinshead, J., Fenn, C., Bartholomew, B., Holdsworth, P. A., Fisher, M., Nash, R. J. & Hoffmann, K. 2018 In : International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance

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Antibody Responses to Schistosoma mansoni Schistosomula Antigens

Egesa M., Lubyayi L, Jones F, van Diepen A, Chalmers I, Tukahebwa E, Bagaya B, Hokke C, Hoffmann K, Dunne D, Elliott A,8, Yazdanbakhsh M, Wilson S, Cose S.  21 Sep 2018 In : Parasite Immunology. e12591.

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S. mansoni Schistosomula Antigens Induce Th1/Proinflammatory Cytokine Responses

Egesa, M., Lubyayi, L., Tukahebwa, E. M., Bagaya, B. S., Chalmers, I., Wilson, S., Hokke, C. H., Hoffmann, K., Dunne, D. W., Yazdanbakhsh, M., Labuda, L. A. & Cose, S. 21 Sep 2018 In : Parasite Immunology. e12592

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The anti-fecundity effect of 5-azacytidine (5-AzaC) on Schistosoma mansoni is linked to dis-regulation transcription, translation and stem cell activities

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Methyl-CpG-binding (SmMBD2/3) and chromobox (SmCBX) proteins are required for neoblast proliferation and oviposition in the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

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Detection of Galba truncatula, Fasciola hepatica and Calicophoron daubneyi environmental DNA within water sources on pasture land, a future tool for fluke control?

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Purification of native Sigma Class Glutathione Transferase from Fasciola hepatica

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Design, synthesis and anthelmintic activity of 7-keto-sempervirol analogues

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Histone methylation changes are required for life cycle progression in the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni

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Rethinking Schistosomiasis Vaccine Development: Synthetic Vesicles

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