id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt vm40xp71248 Nicholas Salvatore Geraci Profiling of Host Immune Responses to Leishmania Parasites and Phlebotomine Arthropod Vectors via Investigations of microRNA Regulation and Acquired Immunity 2015 .txt text/plain 365 17 38 Target reporter experiments confirmed miR-155's ability to target SMAD1, while quantitative Western blot analysis found a greater down-regulation of SMAD1 protein in L. donovani infection samples compared to L. major samples. The host:vector interface was examined through analyses of anti-sand fly salivary gland proteins using blood plasma antibodies from persons residing in differentially endemic regions of Phlebotomus papatasi vectors. cache/vm40xp71248.txt txt/vm40xp71248.txt