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Showing papers by "Luis G.C. Pacheco published in 2017"

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Recombinant proteins of helminths with immunoregulatory properties and their possible therapeutic use.

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Leonardo Nascimento Santos1, Luis G.C. Pacheco1, Carina S. Pinheiro1, Neuza Maria Alcantara-Neves1•
Federal University of Bahia1
01 Feb 2017-Acta Tropica
TL;DR: The methodological approaches and expression systems used for production of the recombinant forms of more than 20 helminth immunomodulatory proteins, besides their performances when evaluated as immunotherapeutic molecules to treat different immune-mediated conditions, including asthma and inflammatory bowel diseases are explored.

20 citations

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Efficient differentiation of Corynebacterium striatum, Corynebacterium amycolatum and Corynebacterium xerosis clinical isolates by multiplex PCR using novel species-specific primers

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Carolina S. Santos1, Juliana Nunes Ramos2, Verônica Viana Vieira2, Carina S. Pinheiro1, Roberto Meyer1, Neuza Maria Alcantara-Neves1, Rommel Thiago Jucá Ramos3, Artur Silva3, Raphael Hirata4, Liza Felicori5, Carlos Ruiz de Alegría Puig6, Jesús Navas6, Vasco Azevedo5, Ana Luíza Mattos-Guaraldi4, Luis G.C. Pacheco1 •
Federal University of Bahia1, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation2, Federal University of Pará3, Rio de Janeiro State University4, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais5, University of Cantabria6
01 Nov 2017-Journal of Microbiological Methods
TL;DR: A multiplex-PCR assay was designed with species-specific primers which generate amplicons of 226bp, 434bp and 106bp for differentiating the species C. striatum, C. amycolatum, and C. xerosis.

9 citations