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 ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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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.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'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.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

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created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Apr 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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