Leishmania donovani metacyclic promastigotes: Transformation in vitro, lectin agglutination, complement resistance, and infectivity

The Lectins: Carbohydrate-Binding Proteins of Plants and Animals

1978 • 1,632 citations

Biology of the Kinetoplastida

1978 • 691 citations

Identification of Macrophage-Like Characteristics in a Cultured Murine Tumor Line

1975 • 374 citations

Identification of cell surface carbohydrate and antigenic changes between noninfective and infective developmental stages of Leishmania major promastigotes.

1985 • 338 citations

Regulation of Leishmania populations within the host. I. the variable course of Leishmania donovani infections in mice.

1977 • 264 citations

Development of Infective Stage Leishmania Promastigotes within Phlebotomine Sand Flies

1985 • 176 citations

A study of the differential respiratory burst activity elicited by promastigotes and amastigotes of Leishmania donovani in murine resident peritoneal macrophages.

1984 • 164 citations

Evidence that Leishmania donovani utilizes a mannose receptor on human mononuclear phagocytes to establish intracellular parasitism.

1986 • 150 citations

The Effect of Post-Bloodmeal Nutrition of Phlebotomus papatasi on the Transmission of Leishmania major

1986 • 139 citations

Growth cycle-dependent generation of complement-resistant Leishmania promastigotes.

1985 • 122 citations

Modification of Sand Fly Biting Behavior by Leishmania Leads to Increased Parasite Transmission

1985 • 91 citations

Effects of Promastigote Growth Phase, Frequency of Subculture, and Host Age on Promastigote‐initiated Infections with Leishmania donovani in the Golden Hamster*^†

1974 • 83 citations

Blood-finding strategy of a capillary-feeding sandfly, Lutzomyia longipalpis

1986 • 67 citations

Macrophage type 3 complement receptors mediate serum-independent binding of Leishmania donovani. Detection of macrophage-derived complement on the parasite surface by immunoelectron microscopy.

1986 • 52 citations

Stage-specific variations in lectin binding to Leishmania donovani

1984 • 47 citations

Receptors and recognition mechanisms of Leishmania species

1985 • 46 citations

Characterization of Populations of Promastigotes of Leishmania donovani1

1981 • 35 citations

Temperature: A Critical Factor Determining Localization and Natural History of Infectious, Metabolic, and Immunological Diseases

1980 • 33 citations

Fluid mechanics of bloodmeal uptake by Leishmania-infected sandflies.

1986 • 33 citations

Killing of Leishmania tropica amastigotes by factors in normal human serum.

1984 • 32 citations

Natural Infections with Promastigotes in Man-Biting Species of Sand Flies in Leishmaniasis-Endemic Areas of Ecuador

1985 • 26 citations

Cytotoxicity of human serum for Leishmania donovani amastigotes: antibody facilitation of alternate complement pathway-mediated killing

1985 • 19 citations

Complement-mediated serum cytotoxicity for Leishmania major amastigotes: killing by serum deficient in early components of the membrane attack complex.

1985 • 11 citations