From owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Nov 8 09:41:03 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: schisto-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 62D6217A77; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 09:41:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09994 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 09:41:00 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id JAA00585 for schisto-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 09:40:59 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: rikki X-Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Looking for Information Date: 8 Nov 1999 01:34:37 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Distribution: world Message-ID: <8065fd$de1@net.bio.net> Lines: 17 To: schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hi My name is Ericka Saffell and I am a student at Carroll College in Waukesha WI. I am taking Immunology right now, along with a course in Parasitology. I am very curious to find out if anyone has any information on the Immune responses of Schistosoma, not necissarily the host response to the parasite, but the immunity of the parasite itself. I would like to do my immunology research paper on this topic. Thank you for your help. Ericka Saffell Carroll College eksaffel@cc.edu From owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Nov 11 08:41:04 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: schisto-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9D78317A62; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:41:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA14261 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:41:02 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id IAA18174 for schisto-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:41:00 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: "Dr. Christoph Grevelding" X-Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Re: Looking for Information Date: 11 Nov 1999 00:26:03 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <80duir$8lh@net.bio.net> To: schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk >Hi > >My name is Ericka Saffell and I am a student at Carroll College in >Waukesha WI. I am taking Immunology right now, along with a course in >Parasitology. I am very curious to find out if anyone has any >information on the Immune responses of Schistosoma, not necissarily the >host response to the parasite, but the immunity of the parasite itself. >I would like to do my immunology research paper on this topic. > >Thank you for your help. > >Ericka Saffell >Carroll College >eksaffel@cc.edu Ericka, I am not aware of somebody who works on the immunity of the parasite itself, but there is a weak indication that schistosmes might possess cytotoxic peptides which could be active against microorganisms. K. Hancock et al. (J. Parasitol 1997, Aug; 83(4): 612-618) described an antigen which is useful for the detection of S. mansoni and S. haematobium antibodies. It turns out out that this molecule has homology to the family of saposin-like proteins, an evolutionary conserved class of cytotoxic peptides which belong to the innate immune system (Tschopp and Hofmann Trends Microbiol. 1996, March vol 4(3) :91-94) Hope this helps a little bit, Christoph From owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Nov 22 10:45:24 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: schisto-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7D25B17A4E; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00852 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:45:18 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id KAA02539 for schisto-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:45:16 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: Amy Gordon X-Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: Help Date: 22 Nov 1999 02:34:59 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <81b68j$3p0@net.bio.net> To: schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hi, I am a Year 8 student in Australia and I am looking for information on blood fluke I was wondering if anyone could give me information on the symptoms, treatment, causes and locations of infection. Thanks allot Paul From owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Nov 22 10:45:24 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: schisto-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id E0A8C17A5B; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00850 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:45:18 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id KAA02543 for schisto-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:45:16 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: 915608@candseek.com X-Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: JOBOP ORACLE DEVELOPER BIOINFORMATICS GROUP Date: 22 Nov 1999 02:38:21 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <81b6et$3sd@net.bio.net> To: schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Since your email address was listed on a related web site page or database, I thought you might help. 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Geographic Location of Position: US-CT If you know anyone that might be interested, please forward this to them or contact: Sam Saint DMC Fax: 609-584-9575 Voice 609-584-8733 Ext. 218 Email: 915608@candseek.com From owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Fri Nov 26 08:45:19 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: schisto-archive@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9F02517A72; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:45:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05104 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:45:17 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id IAA15772 for schisto-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:45:15 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: aslett@ebi.ac.uk (Martin Aslett) X-Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: SchistoDB Release 2 Date: 26 Nov 1999 00:28:36 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <81lgbk$rld@net.bio.net> To: schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Dear all, We are pleased to announce release 2 of the Schistosoma Genome Network database SchistoDB at the following address :- ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/parasites/Schisto/latest_Schistodb_data_dump The database uses the software AceDB which is freely available by ftp and can be run on Unix (including Linux) and Windows95/NT machines. The directory contains a file README.SchistoDB which contains full details of how to download and install both the AceDB software and the SchistoDB data. It is recommended that users with release 1 of SchistoDB should empty their current database of data (instructions for doing so are in the README file above) and install the release 2 data from scratch (there is no need to re-install the AceDB software, although it is recommended that you should install the most recent version of AceDB for your machine). It is anticipated that release 3 of SchistoDB will occur some time in the early part of 2000. Please e-mail me (aslett@ebi.ac.uk) or David Johnston (daj@nhm.ac.uk) with any queries regarding SchistoDB. Thanks, Martin Aslett, Parasite Genome Database Co-ordinator, EBI, Hinxton,Cambridge, UK. ---