News tagged with alpha toxin
MRSA study suggests strategy shift needed to develop effective therapeutics
USA300--the major epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causing severe infections in the United States during the past decade--inherits its destructiveness directly from a forefather strain ...
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Salmonella stays deadly with a 'beta' version of cell behavior
Salmonella cells have hijacked the protein-building process to maintain their ability to cause illness, new research suggests.
Aug 14, 2011 |
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Rats control appetite for poison
(PhysOrg.com) -- Life is tough for woodrats in deserts of the U.S. Southwest. There are few plants for food, and those plants produce poison to deter rodents, insects and other animals. A new University of ...
Aug 09, 2011 |
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'Gifted' natural vitamin E tocotrienol protects brain against stroke in three ways
A natural form of vitamin E called alpha-tocotrienol can trigger production of a protein in the brain that clears toxins from nerve cells, preventing those cells from dying after a stroke, new research shows.
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Exposing the potential of sugar chains for the diagnosis and treatment of disease
Protruding from the surface of cells in the body like whiskers are sugar chains, a biological structure often bound to lipids and proteins embedded in the cell membrane. Recent studies have shown that sugar ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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New research implicates natural toxin as triggering Parkinson's disease
In new research from Saint Louis University, investigators have found evidence that a toxin produced by the brain is responsible for the series of cellular events that lead to Parkinson's disease. The study, published in ...
Feb 10, 2011 |
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New model will open immune cell's secrets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Five decades after the discovery of a rare but potentially pivotal immune cell, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a way to eliminate it in mice.
Dec 23, 2010 |
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Treatment for S. aureus skin infection works in mouse model
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health and University of Chicago have found a promising treatment method that in laboratory mice reduces the severity of skin and soft-tissue damage caused by USA300, ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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'Co-conspirator' cells could hold key to melanoma prediction, prevention
New research on how skin cancer begins has identified adjacent cancer cells that scientists are calling "co-conspirators" in the genesis of melanoma, in findings that could someday hold the key to predicting, preventing and ...
Aug 30, 2010 |
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Virus 'explorers' probe inner workings of the brain (w/ Video)
Imagine an exceedingly complex circuit board. Wires often split -- seemingly at random -- and connect in strange and unexpected ways.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Researchers show some cells in pancreas can spontaneously change into insulin-producing cells
Alpha cells in the pancreas, which do not produce insulin, can convert into insulin-producing beta cells, advancing the prospect of regenerating beta cells as a cure for type 1 diabetes. The findings come from a study at ...
Apr 05, 2010 |
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