News tagged with toxoplasma gondii
Gene targeting discovery opens door for vaccines and drugs
Apr 13, 2009 |
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In a genetic leap that could help fast track vaccine and drug development to prevent or tame serious global diseases, DMS researchers have discovered how to destroy a key DNA pathway in a wily and widespread human parasite. ...
Sea Otters' Diet is Clue to Slow Recovery
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Davis researchers trying to understand the sea otter's slow recovery in California have found an important clue: Some sea otters feed almost exclusively on animals that raise their risk of being infected ...
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How Toxoplasma gondii gets noticed
Jan 19, 2009 |
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Researchers provide insight into how Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite of people and other animals, triggers an immune response in its host. The report will appear online on January 19th in The Journal of Experimental Medicine. ...
Unravelling the mystery of the kitty litter parasite in marine mammals
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Jun 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at California Polytechnic State University have discovered what may be a clue to the mystery of why marine mammals around the world are succumbing to a parasite that is typically only associated with cats. The ...
Toxoplasma infection increases risk of schizophrenia, study suggests
Jan 16, 2008 |
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Findings from what is believed to be the largest comparison of blood samples collected from healthy individuals and people with schizophrenia suggest that infection with the common Toxoplasma gondii parasite, carried by cats ...
Researchers discover protein is crucial to reproduction of parasites involved in disease
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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As diseases go, toxoplasmosis is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Its effects are usually mild, though infection is for life, and two out of five Americans are chronically infected. Those with compromised immune systems can, however, ...
Indiana U scientists uncover potential key to better drugs to fight toxoplasmosis parasite
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 18, 2008 |
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Discoveries by Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have opened a promising door to new drugs for toxoplasmosis and other parasites that now can evade treatments by turning dormant in the body.
Locking Parasites in Host Cell Could Be New Way to Fight Malaria, Penn Study Shows
Apr 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that parasites hijack host-cell proteins to ensure their survival and proliferation, suggesting new ways to control the diseases ...
Friendly gut bacteria lend a hand to fight infection, study suggests
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Immunology researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that bacteria present in the human gut help initiate the body's defense mechanisms against Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite responsible for to ...
Newly developed anti-malarial medicine treats toxoplasmosis
Mar 05, 2008 |
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A new drug that will soon enter clinical trials for treatment of malaria also appears to be 10 times more effective than the key medicine in the current gold-standard treatment for toxoplasmosis, a disease ...
'Golden bullet' shows promise for killing common parasite
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Researchers in Australia report development of a new type of gold nanoparticle that destroys the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis, a potentially serious disease acquired by handling the feces of infected cats or eating ...
Parasite vaccines within reach
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Even though parasites are complex creatures, the mammalian immune response to them is surprisingly simple, leading University of California, Berkeley, researchers to predict that creating vaccines for parasitic ...
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