Yukifumi Nawa

TL;DR: It is disturbing that despite treatment and control programs in place for decades, all countries of the Lower Mekong Basin are still highly endemic with O. viverrini and/or C. sinensis as well as alarmingly high levels of CCA incidence.

TL;DR: By means of simple experimental approaches, it is found that mucosal mast cells and goblet cells are in fact highly selective and specific effector cells of the host defence mechanisms capable of acting on the establishment and the expulsion of intestinal helminths.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out histological study of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) tissues of patients, and interventional animal and cell culture experiments to investigate a role of mast cells in the pathogenesis of AAA.

TL;DR: It is the opinion that for now the management and control of trypanosomosis will continue to depend on proper usage of the few available trypanocides, especially strategic deployment of the sanative drugs in order to reduce the development of drug resistance, in addition to the continued use of environmentally friendly vector control programmes such tsetse trapping.

TL;DR: Transfer of γδ IEL to Cδ−/− mice ameliorated TNBS-induced colitis, which correlated with decrease of IFN-γ and TNF-α production and an increase of TGF-β production by IEL, and suggests that enhancement of regulatory γ δ T cell activity is a possible new cell therapy for colitis.