• Aedes fluviatilis cell lines as new tools to study metabolic and immune interactions in mosquito‑Wolbachia symbiosis 

      Calixto, Christiano; Silva, Jhenifer N.; Sampaio, Angélica Fernandes Arcanjo; Nogueira, Cintia Lopes; Abreu, Leonardo Araujo de; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de; Gondim, Katia Calp; Moraes, Bruno; Carvalho, Stephanie Serafim de; Silva, Renato Martins da; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Moreira, Luciano A.; Logullo, Carlos (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      In the present work, we established two novel embryonic cell lines from the mosquito Aedes fluviatilis containing or not the naturally occurring symbiont bacteria Wolbachia, which were called wAflu1 and Aflu2, respectively. ...
    • Redox imbalance induces remodeling of glucose metabolism in Rhipicephalus microplus embryonic cell line 

      Noce, Bárbara Pitta Della; Silva, Renato Martins da; Uhl, Marcelle Vianna de Carvalho; Konnai, Satoru; Ohashi, Kazuhiko; Calixto, Christiano; Sampaio, Angélica Fernandes Arcanjo; Abreu, Leonardo Araujo de; Carvalho, Stephanie Serafim de; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Logullo, Carlos (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Carbohydrate metabolism not only functions in supplying cellular energy but also has an important role in maintaining physiological homeostasis and in preventing oxidative damage caused by reactive oxygen species. Previously, ...
    • Stable internal reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR analyses in Rhipicephalus microplus during embryogenesis 

      Kim, Tae Kwon; Waldman, Jéssica; Ibanez-Carrasco, Freddy; Tirloni, Lucas; Waltero Orjuela, Camila Fernanda; Calixto, Christiano; Braz, Glória Regina Cardoso; Mulenga, Albert; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Logullo, Carlos (2023) [Artigo de periódico]
      Studies on the transcriptional control of gene expression are crucial to understand changes in organism’s physiological or cellular conditions. To obtain reliable data on mRNA amounts and the estimation of gene expression ...