From mcagrawal at yahoo.com Sat Jun 4 09:12:19 2005 From: mcagrawal at yahoo.com (M.C. Agrawal) Date: Sun Jun 12 18:37:31 2005 Subject: Asian/Indian schistosomes and schistosomiasis. Message-ID: <20050607083749.D367E5195B@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> The following two messages were forwarded for Professor M.C.AGRAWAL Message 1: >Writing of Monograph on Asian/Indian schistosomes and schistosomiasis. >Dear Colleagues, >A lot of work has been done on Indian schistosomes and schistosomiasis but most of the work has been >published in Indian journals with little assess by international scientific community. Nevertheless, >knowledge of the work is very important specially to those international scientists who are working on >phylogeny, biology of schistosomes, drug response, heterologous mating,comparative pathology etc. Since >most of the work is scattered, the scientific community is not able to analyse the work carried out in India >and adjoining countries. >The undersigned has worked extensively on different aspects (immunity, diagnosis, zoonotic potentials, >epidemiology, blood biochemistry, host susceptibilities , techniques etc ) of Indian schistosomes for last thirty years and has retired as Dean/Professor and Head, Department of Parasitology, College of Veterinary Science and AH,Jabalpur on 31st Jan, 2005. Therefore, he is interested to write a monograph on Indian schistosomes and schistosomiasis >caused by them in different countries. Certainly, the job is extensive, requires collaborations, finances hence appeal any scientific organisation/institution/scientist who is interested to join the project. >Yours sincerely >M.C.AGRAWAL,4th June, 05 > Message 2: Triclabendazole in schistosomiasis. Dear Colleagues, We are working on Indian schistosomes since last three decades. Among the work, we tried Praziquantel, Oxamaniquine against Schistosoma incognitum/S.spindale in mouse/pigs but with insignificant results. As triclabendazole is used against fascioliasis in bovines, we tried it first in S.incognitum-mouse model and then in cattle harboring schistosomiasis. The drug is killing immature blood flukes to significant levels and mature to the level of other drugs. Therefore, in our opinion, there is a case to try triclabendazole in schistsomiasis; also where host is harboring both fasciola and schistosomes. Our paper on Triclabendazole on hepatic bovine schistosomiasis is appearing in June 2005 issue of Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, published by Indian Council of Agriculture Sciences, New Delhi. It will be our pleasure to collaborate with any one in this adventure. Yours sincerely M.C.AGRAWAL , 4th June, 2005 From miguel at icb.ufmg.br Sun Jun 12 23:43:45 2005 From: miguel at icb.ufmg.br (J. Miguel Ortega) Date: Thu Jun 23 00:01:55 2005 Subject: [Schistosoma] (no subject) Message-ID: <2070.201.8.116.199.1118637825.squirrel@201.8.116.199> I have been recently involved in a bioinformatics approach to look for genes not expressed in S. mansoni and found catalase, amongst several others. It is a gene expressed in D. melanogaster and C. elegans, before one asks. Anyone can comment? I would appreciate, since when I show the approach around, usually people get curious about the lacking of catalase in the worm. Miguel *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* J. Miguel Ortega PhD | A B CEL. 55(31)8883-7890 | B - meeting MSN: biodados@hotmail.com | B C Skype: jmiguelortega | www.x-meeting.com *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* From biosci at net.bio.net Sun Jun 19 14:10:47 2005 From: biosci at net.bio.net (BIOSCI Administrator) Date: Thu Jun 23 00:02:04 2005 Subject: [Schistosoma] BIOSCI/Bionet has a new home Message-ID: <200506191910.j5JJAli23197@net.bio.net> Dear SCHISTOSOMA readers, BIOSCI/Bionet is the long-running Biology news and discussion groups. The management of these groups has been handled ably at MRC/Rosalind Franklin Centre for several years now. They are turning over management to me, Don Gilbert, at Indiana University Biology department. The MRC/RFC folks deserve our thanks for their devotion to maintaining this useful and unique biology news service. Web access continues at http://www.bio.net/ Find there SCHISTOSOMA links to Read/Subscribe/Post messages. E-mail postings continue to be through schisto @ net.bio.net The new home is at IUBio Archive, iubio.bio.indiana.edu, which I've maintained for over 15 years. The names net.bio.net and www.bio.net, and their related BIOSCI roles continue to work. Please keep using these bio.net addresses, they will continue when the host computer changes. There may be some hiccups over the coming weeks as the new BIOSCI home gets a work out. Please bear with us, and let us know if problems persist longer. Regards, Don Gilbert Biology Dept., Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA 47405 BIOSCI help mail: biosci-help @ net.bio.net ---------------------------------------------- From miguel at icb.ufmg.br Sun Jun 12 23:43:45 2005 From: miguel at icb.ufmg.br (J. Miguel Ortega) Date: Mon Jun 27 18:32:54 2005 Subject: [Schistosoma] (no subject) Message-ID: <2070.201.8.116.199.1118637825.squirrel@201.8.116.199> I have been recently involved in a bioinformatics approach to look for genes not expressed in S. mansoni and found catalase, amongst several others. It is a gene expressed in D. melanogaster and C. elegans, before one asks. Anyone can comment? I would appreciate, since when I show the approach around, usually people get curious about the lacking of catalase in the worm. Miguel *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* J. Miguel Ortega PhD | A B CEL. 55(31)8883-7890 | B - meeting MSN: biodados@hotmail.com | B C Skype: jmiguelortega | www.x-meeting.com *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* From biosci at net.bio.net Sun Jun 19 14:10:47 2005 From: biosci at net.bio.net (BIOSCI Administrator) Date: Mon Jun 27 18:32:55 2005 Subject: [Schistosoma] BIOSCI/Bionet has a new home Message-ID: <200506191910.j5JJAli23197@net.bio.net> Dear SCHISTOSOMA readers, BIOSCI/Bionet is the long-running Biology news and discussion groups. The management of these groups has been handled ably at MRC/Rosalind Franklin Centre for several years now. They are turning over management to me, Don Gilbert, at Indiana University Biology department. The MRC/RFC folks deserve our thanks for their devotion to maintaining this useful and unique biology news service. Web access continues at http://www.bio.net/ Find there SCHISTOSOMA links to Read/Subscribe/Post messages. E-mail postings continue to be through schisto @ net.bio.net The new home is at IUBio Archive, iubio.bio.indiana.edu, which I've maintained for over 15 years. The names net.bio.net and www.bio.net, and their related BIOSCI roles continue to work. Please keep using these bio.net addresses, they will continue when the host computer changes. There may be some hiccups over the coming weeks as the new BIOSCI home gets a work out. Please bear with us, and let us know if problems persist longer. Regards, Don Gilbert Biology Dept., Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA 47405 BIOSCI help mail: biosci-help @ net.bio.net ----------------------------------------------