Kevin Kavanagh

Research interests

Publications

• Immune priming: the secret weapon of the insect world

  Virulence · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2020.1731137

• Innate humoral immune defences in mammals and insects: The same, with differences ?

  Virulence · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2018.1526531

• An analysis of the structural \nand functional similarities of insect hemocytes \nand mammalian phagocytes

  Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University) · 2013

• Potential role of Demodex mites and bacteria in the induction of rosacea

  Journal of Medical Microbiology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.048090-0

• Candida Urinary Tract Infection: Pathogenesis

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cir110

• Self-Protection against Gliotoxin—A Component of the Gliotoxin Biosynthetic Cluster, GliT, Completely Protects Aspergillus fumigatus Against Exogenous Gliotoxin

  PLoS Pathogens · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000952

• Anticancer and antifungal activity of copper(II) complexes of quinolin-2(1H)-one-derived Schiff bases

  Inorganica Chimica Acta · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2010.08.009

• Under the lash: Demodex mites in human diseases

  The Biochemist · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1042/bio03104020

• Mite-related bacterial antigens stimulate inflammatory cells in rosacea

  British Journal of Dermatology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2007.08028.x

• Superoxide Production in Galleria mellonella Hemocytes: Identification of Proteins Homologous to the NADPH Oxidase Complex of Human Neutrophils

  Infection and Immunity · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.73.7.4161-4170.2005

• Histatins: antimicrobial peptides with therapeutic potential

  Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1211/0022357022971

• Correlation between Gliotoxin Production and Virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus in Galleria mellonella

  Mycopathologia · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1023/b:myco.0000038434.55764.16

• Exploiting the potential of insects for in vivo pathogenicity testing of microbial pathogens

  FEMS Microbiology Reviews · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsre.2003.09.002

• Correlation between virulence ofCandida albicansmutants in mice andGalleria mellonellalarvae

  FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-695x.2002.tb00617.x

• Development of an insect model for the in vivo pathogenicity testing of yeasts

  FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-695x.2000.tb01427.x

• Enhancement of chemotherapeutic drug toxicity to human tumour cells in vitro by a subset of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)

  European Journal of Cancer · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0959-8049(98)00045-8

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