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Scientists solve mystery about why HIV patients are more susceptible to TB infection
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 30, 2009 |
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A team of Harvard scientists has taken an important first step toward the development of new treatments to help people with HIV battle Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection. In their report, appearing in the July 2009 p ...
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Infiltrating blood-derived macrophages play a role in recovery from spinal cord injury in mice
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Although macrophages are known as essential players in wound healing, their contribution to recovery from spinal cord injury is a subject of debate.
Phagocytosis study: surprising discovery
Mar 21, 2006 |
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University of California-Santa Barbara scientists say they've made a surprising discovery: phagocytosis depends more on particle shape than size.
Parasites that live inside cells use loophole to thwart immune system
Nov 03, 2008 |
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a mechanism by which intracellular pathogens can shut down one of the body's key chemical weapons against them: nitric oxide. The researchers found that the ...
Smoking increases risk of developing active TB
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Smoking is a risk factor for active tuberculosis (TB) disease, according to a new study on TB incidence in Taiwan.
Team IDs weakness in anthrax bacteria
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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MIT and New York University researchers have identified a weakness in the defenses of the anthrax bacterium that could be exploited to produce new antibiotics.
New study overturns orthodoxy on how macrophages kill bacteria
Apr 27, 2009 |
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For decades, microbiologists assumed that macrophages, immune cells that can engulf and poison bacteria and other pathogens, killed microbes by damaging their DNA. A new study from the University of Illinois ...
Interstitial macrophages: immune cells that prevent asthma
Nov 10, 2009 |
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The continual presence in the air of the microbe-derived molecule LPS promotes asthma in some individuals. What prevents inhalation of LPS from promoting asthma in most individuals is not well understood. However, researchers ...
Researchers identify potential target for metastatic cancer
Aug 10, 2009 |
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The deadliest part of the cancer process, metastasis, appears to rely on help from macrophages, potent immune system cells that usually defend vigorously against disease, researchers at Albert Einstein College ...
Killing 'angry' immune cells in fat could fight diabetes
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Oct 07, 2008 |
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By killing off "angry" immune cells that take up residence in obese fat and muscle tissue, researchers have shown that they can rapidly reverse insulin resistance in obese mice. The findings reported in the October Cell Me ...
The indefinite self-renewal of specialized cells without the need for stem cell intermediates
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Is the indefinite expansion of adult cells possible without recourse to stem cell intermediates? The team led by Michael Sieweke at the Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy, France has ...
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