Wim Degrave

Uptake of host cell transforming growth factor-ß by Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes in cardiomyocytes: potential role in parasite cycle completion. (2008)

Waghabi, Mariana, Keramidas, Michelle, Bailly, Sabine, Degrave, Wim, Mendonça-Lima, Leila, Soeiro, Maria De Nazaré, ...

Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is a cytokine that plays various functions in the control of Trypanosoma cruzi infectivity and in the progression of Chagas disease. When we...

Uptake of host cell transforming growth factor-ß by Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes in cardiomyocytes: potential role in parasite cycle completion. (2008)

Waghabi, Mariana, Keramidas, Michelle, Bailly, Sabine, Degrave, Wim, Mendonça-Lima, Leila, Soeiro, Maria De Nazaré, ...

Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is a cytokine that plays various functions in the control of Trypanosoma cruzi infectivity and in the progression of Chagas disease. When we...

Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis   strains isolated in Community Health Centers of Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil (2007)

Oelemann, Maraníbia C, Fontes, Amanda NB, Pereira, Marcia A Da Silva, Bravin, Yolanda, Silva, Guida, Degrave, Wim, ...

Fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from tuberculosis (TB) patients attended in Community Health Centers (CHCs) of Rio de Janeiro was performed to verify possible risk factors for TB...

Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in Community Health Centers of Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil (2007)

Oelemann,Maraníbia C, Fontes,Amanda NB, Pereira,Marcia A Da Silva, Bravin,Yolanda, Silva,Guida, Degrave,Wim, ...

Fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from tuberculosis (TB) patients attended in Community Health Centers (CHCs) of Rio de Janeiro was performed to verify possible risk factors for TB...

INTRASPECIFIC HETEROGENEITY IN THE MINI-EXON GENE LOCALIZATION OF LEISHMANIA (VIANNIA) PANAMENSIS AND LEISHMANIA (VIANNIA) GUYANENSIS FROM COLOMBIA (2000)

Raquel S. Pacheco, Octavio Fernandes, Graciela Salinas, Iris Segura, Hooman Momen, Wim Degrave, ...

Intraspecific heterogeneity was demonstrated in the mini-exon gene localization from Leishmania (Viannia) panamensis and L. (Viannia) guyanensis. Different karyotypes were detected in human isolates...

TcruziDB, an integrated database, and the WWW information server for the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome Project (1997)

Wim Degrave, Antonio B De Miranda, Alex Amorim, Adeilton Brandao, Martin Aslett, Mark Vandeyar

Data analysis, presentation and distribution is of utmost importance to a genome project. A public domain software, ACeDB, has been chosen as the common basis for parasite genome databases, and a...

Parasite genome projects and the Trypanosoma cruzi genome initiative (1997)

Wim Degrave, Mariano J Levin, Jose Franco Da Silveira, Carlos M Morel

Since the start of the human genome project, a great number of genome projects on other "model" organism have been initiated, some of them already completed. Several initiatives have also been...

Identification of transcribed sequences (ESTs) in the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome Project (1997)

Adeilton Brandao, Turan Urmenyi, Edson Rondinelli, Antonio Gonzalez, Antonio B De Miranda, Wim Degrave

Random single pass sequencing of cDNA fragments, also known as generation of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs), has been highly successful in the study of the gene content of higher organisms, and forms...

TcruziDB, an Integrated Database, and the WWW Information Server for the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome Project (1997)

Degrave,Wim, Miranda,Antonio B De, Alex,Amorim, Brandão,Adeílton, Aslett,Martin, Vandeyar,Mark

Data analysis, presentation and distribution is of utmost importance to a genome project. A public domain software, ACeDB, has been chosen as the common basis for parasite genome databases, and a...

Parasite Genome Projects and the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome Initiative (1997)

Degrave,Wim, Levin,Mariano J, Silveira,José Franco Da, Morel,Carlos M

Since the start of the human genome project, a great number of genome projects on other "model" organism have been initiated, some of them already completed. Several initiatives have also been...

Identification of Transcribed Sequences (ESTs) in the Trypanosoma cruzi Genome Project (1997)

Brandão,Adeílton, Urmenyi,Turan, Rondinelli,Edson, Gonzalez,Antonio, Miranda,Antonio B De, Degrave,Wim

Random single pass sequencing of cDNA fragments, also known as generation of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs), has been highly successful in the study of the gene content of higher organisms, and forms...

Use of PCR in Diagnosis of Human American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pirmez, Claude, Da Silva Trajano, Valéria, Neto, Manoel Paes-Oliveira, Da-Cruz, Alda Maria, Gonçalves-da-Costa, Sylvio Celso, Catanho, Marcos, ...

In Brazil, the most common etiological agent of American tegumentary leishmaniasis is Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis. In general, diagnostic techniques envisage the visualization of the parasite,...

Crystal structure, catalytic mechanism, and mitogenic properties of Trypanosoma cruzi proline racemase

Buschiazzo, Alejandro, Goytia, Maira, Schaeffer, Francis, Degrave, Wim, Shepard, William, Grégoire, Christophe, ...

Amino acid racemases catalyze the stereoinversion of the chiral Cα to produce the d-enantiomers that participate in biological processes, such as cell wall construction in prokaryotes. Within this...

Uptake of Host Cell Transforming Growth Factor-β by Trypanosoma cruzi Amastigotes in Cardiomyocytes : Potential Role in Parasite Cycle Completion

Waghabi, Mariana C., Keramidas, Michelle, Bailly, Sabine, Degrave, Wim, Mendonça-Lima, Leila, Soeiro, Maria De Nazaré C., ...

The cytokine transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) plays various functions in the control of Trypanosoma cruzi infectivity and in the progression of Chagas’ disease. When we immunostained T....