Publications by Beatrice Volpe

beta-Glucan receptors on IL-4 activated macrophages are required for hookworm larvae recognition and trapping

Nicola Harris, Julia Esser-von Bieren, Beatrice Volpe, Tiffany Babette Angélique Bouchery, Mati André Marie Moyat

Recent advances in the field of host immunity against parasitic nematodes have revealed the importance of macrophages in trapping tissue migratory larvae. Protective immune mechanisms against the rodent hookworm Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (Nb) are mediat ...

WILEY2022

Immune serum-activated human macrophages coordinate with eosinophils to immobilize Ascaris suum larvae

Nicola Harris, Julia Esser-von Bieren, Beatrice Volpe, Kathleen Shah, Tiffany Babette Angélique Bouchery

Helminth infection represents a major health problem causing approximately 5 million disability-adjusted life years worldwide. Concerns that repeated anti-helminthic treatment may lead to drug resistance render it important that vaccines are developed but ...

WILEY2020

Hookworms Evade Host Immunity by Secreting a Deoxyribonuclease to Degrade Neutrophil Extracellular Traps

Manuel Kulagin, Arne Seitz, Nicola Harris, Romain Guiet, Beatrice Volpe, Kathleen Shah, Tiffany Babette Angélique Bouchery, Mati André Marie Moyat

Hookworms cause a major neglected tropical disease, occurring after larvae penetrate the host skin. Neutrophils are phagocytes that kill large pathogens by releasing neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), but whether they target hookworms during skin infec ...

CELL PRESS2020

CMOS and 3D Printing for NMR Spectroscopy at the Single Embryo Scale

Johann Michler, Giovanni Boero, Martinus Gijs, Franck Vincent, Jürgen Brugger, Nicola Harris, Enrica Montinaro, Laszlo Pethö, Beatrice Volpe, Marco Grisi, Maria Cristina Letizia

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2019

Role of myeloid cells in mediating protection against parasitic helminth larvae

Beatrice Volpe

Helminth infections affect around one fourth of the world population living in the poorest regions of our planet. Helminths mainly cause debilitating chronic effects on health, development and nutritional status of infected people. The development of a vac ...

EPFL2017

NMR spectroscopy of single sub-nL ova with inductive ultra-compact single-chip probes

Giovanni Boero, Franck Vincent, Nicola Harris, Beatrice Volpe, Marco Grisi

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy enables non-invasive chemical studies of intact living matter. However, the use of NMR at the volume scale typical of microorganisms is hindered by sensitivity limitations, and experiments on single intact orga ...

Nature Research2017

Dialogue Between Neutrophils And Hookworms Determines Parasite Development

Nicola Harris, Beatrice Volpe, Tiffany Babette Angélique Bouchery

Amer Soc Trop Med & Hygiene2017

NMR spectroscopy of subnanoliter ova with ultra-compact inductive probes

Giovanni Boero, Nicola Harris, Beatrice Volpe, Marco Grisi

2016

Immune Antibodies and Helminth Products Drive CXCR2-Dependent Macrophage-Myofibroblast Crosstalk to Promote Intestinal Repair

Jérôme Bürgi, Nicola Harris, Benjamin John Marsland, Julia Esser-von Bieren, Beatrice Volpe, Duncan-Bruce Sutherland

Helminth parasites can cause considerable damage when migrating through host tissues, thus making rapid tissue repair imperative to prevent bleeding and bacterial dissemination particularly during enteric infection. However, how protective type 2 responses ...

Public Library Science2015

Antibody-Mediated Trapping of Helminth Larvae Requires CD11b and Fc gamma Receptor I

Manuel Kulagin, Arne Seitz, Nicola Harris, Benjamin John Marsland, Julia Esser-von Bieren, Romain Guiet, Beatrice Volpe, Duncan-Bruce Sutherland

Infections with intestinal helminths severely impact on human and veterinary health, particularly through the damage that these large parasites inflict when migrating through host tissues. Host immunity often targets the motility of tissue-migrating helmin ...

American Association of Immunologists ; Oxford University Press2015

Parasite Proximity Drives the Expansion of Regulatory T Cells in Peyer's Patches following Intestinal Helminth Infection

Luc Xavier Marie Lebon, Ilaria Mosconi, Nicola Harris, Mario Michael Zaiss, Julia Esser-von Bieren, Beatrice Volpe, Lalit Kumar Dubey

Helminth infections are typically chronic in nature; however, the exact molecular mechanisms by which these parasites promote or thwart host immunity remain unclear. Worm expulsion requires the differentiation of CD4(+) T cells into Th2 cells, while regula ...

American Society for Microbiology2015

Antibodies Trap Tissue Migrating Helminth Larvae and Prevent Tissue Damage by Driving IL-4Rα-Independent Alternative Differentiation of Macrophages

Fei Chen, Arne Seitz, Ilaria Mosconi, Nicola Harris, Julia Esser-von Bieren, Romain Guiet, Beatrice Volpe, Alessandra Piersigilli

Approximately one-third of the world's population suffers from chronic helminth infections with no effective vaccines currently available. Antibodies and alternatively activated macrophages (AAM) form crucial components of protective immunity against chall ...

Public Library of Science2013