69 results about "Plasmodium falciparum" patented technology

Compositions and methods are provided for the induction of a protective immunize response in primates against lethal challenge of Plasmodium.

Methods of purifying MSP-1 from a variety of source materials including from the milk of transgenic mammals.

Uric acid in mammalian subjects is reduced and excretion of uric acid is increased by administering a compound of Formula I. The uric acid-lowering effects of the compounds of this invention are used to treat or prevent a variety of conditions including gout, hyperuricemia, elevated levels of uric acid that do not meet the levels customarily justifying a diagnosis of hyperuricemia, renal dysfunction, kidney stones, cardiovascular disease, risk for developing cardiovascular disease, tumor-lysis syndrome, cognitive impairment, early-onset essential hypertension, and Plasmodium falciparum-induced inflammation. In Formula 1, x is 1 or 2: y is O, 1, 2 or 3; and R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, hydroxy, alkoxy having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, fluoro, chloro, bromo, and amino. A is phenyl unsubstituted or substituted by one, two or three groups selected from the group consisting of halo, alkyl having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, perfluoromethyL alkoxy having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, and perfluoromethoxy; or cycloalkyl having from 3 to 6 ring atoms wherein the cycloalky! is unsubstituted or one one two ring carbons are independently mono-substituted by methyl or ethyl; or a 5 or 6 membered heleraromatic ring having 1 or 2 ring heteroatoms selected from N, S and O and the heteroaromatic ring is covalently bound to the remainder of the compound by a ring carbon.

In this application is described the expression and purification of a recombinant Plasmodium falciparum (FVO) MSP-142. The method of the present invention produces a highly purified protein that retains folding and disulfide bridging of the native molecule. The recombinant MSP-142 is useful as a diagnostic reagent, for use in antibody production, and as a vaccine.

The present invention relates generally to a method of eliciting or otherwise inducing an effective immune response to a micro-organism and compositions for use therein. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of inducing an immune response to a parasite utilising an immunogenic composition comprising a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (referred to herein as “GPIt”) inositolglycan domain or its derivatives. Even more particularly, the present invention contemplates an immunogenic composition comprising the Plasmodium falciparum GPI inositolglycan domain or its derivatives. The present invention is useful, inter alia, as a prophylactic and / or therapeutic treatment for disease conditions such as, for example, infection by parasites and in particular infection by Plasmodium species.

Compositions and methods are provided for the induction of a protective immunize response in primates against a lethal challenge of Plasmodium.

Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum equilibrative nucleoside transporter type 1 are identified and methods of use as anti-parasitic compounds are provided.