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Study Shows Tomosyn Plays an Important Role in Learning and Memory

...Richmond and her colleagues used the soil nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans to study the function of tomosyn using a recording technique she developed to understand how synaptic proteins affect release of neurotransmitters at the nerve cell junctions. The lab's ability to study synaptic transmission wa...

Onchocerciasis: Presentation And Treatment

...economy of this area. The disease is caused by the worm Onchocerca volvulus and is transmitted through the bite of the black fly, Simulium. Enviromental conditions such as humidity, rapid water rivers and altitude of Bioko favour the development of this pathology, since this is the habitat of the fly ac...

A Worm Turns: Banking on Blood From a Little Lugworm

... seems to have many secrets in store, and a little worm which is popularly called the lug worm, and commonly used by fish folk as bait, stands a good chance of elevating its position to that of a life saver. This idea first struck the English and French scientists, who knew of the presence of pure blood i...

Painkiller Based on Sea Snail Venom Made Available in Britain

...hem. These two-inch sized snails shoots out a thin worm like tube into fish swimming by. When the venom is injected into the fish it is paralyzed and can be swallowed whole. A teenager, Michael McIntosh, who started to help with the research soon after leaving school, discovered the venom. Now, 25 years...

Blood Fluke Vaccine in the Pipeline

...ne system and thereby helps the body to detect the worm and destroys it. It is proved to be very effective during the trail studies. It has reduced the rate of infection by more than 60 %. Blood flukes, or schistosomes, are found in fresh waters of the tropics in developing countries and is ranked in t...

Protein Link Between Cancer In Humans And Lifespan Of A Worm Found

...is protein from a microscopic worm, C.elegans, the worm lived to 30% longer. This has led to their thinking that a lack of this protein means the reason as to why humans live longer, but with an increased risk of cancer. The researchers feel that the protein's dual function could also raise another impo...

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Cured By Parasitic Worms

...t that would normally cause inflammation, but that worm parasites mount an anti-inflammatory defense that ...ms to regulate immune responses.’ The particular worm that Mansfield and colleagues are studying as a potential treatment is known as the whipworm, or Tri...

Parasitic Worms Could Be Used To Treat Bowel Disease

...t that would normally cause inflammation, but that worm parasites mount an anti-inflammatory defense that ...rms to regulate immune responses." The particular worm that Mansfield and colleagues are studying as a potential treatment is known as the whipworm, or Tri...

Tequila-The Real Stuff or Not

...ade from Agave, including mezcal (the one with the worm in it), sotol and bacanora. With the exception of mezcal, the scientists were similarly able to identify the other spirits by their distinctive chemical profile, a finding that could also aid in quality control efforts among the other Agave spirits, ...

Link Between Solar Flares And Strokes Under Study

... 1992 discovered a seven-year cycle for intestinal worm attacks in humans, while other scientists in 1993 found tapeworms occurring in seven-year and 12-year rhythms in swine as well as sheep. Another study found abortions among girls occurring in 10-year cycles in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Kov...

Where Mother's Skin Turns Into Food For Offspring

Scientists have discovered a worm that feasts on its mother's skin - a practice they have never before seen in animals.// Mark Wilkinson, a zoologist at the Natural History Museum in London and his team uncovered the bizarre form of parental care in Kenya, reported the online edit...

Assam's Floating Hospital To Render Medical Services To Islanders

...mia, gastritis, respiratory infections, diarrhoea, worm infections and malnutrition. 'Akha camps are important as we don't have a dispensary or a public health centre,' said Basanti Basumatary, a resident of Charikhulia Chapori. 'Earlier, we used to take patients to 'guwala dactor' (quack),' she added....

Elephantiasis Is Eliminated In Egypt Due To Mass Drug Administration

...his condition is caused by a microscopic parasitic worm spread by mosquitoes. The symptoms are grotesquely swollen limbs, as well as fevers and pain. researchers reported in the Lancet medical journal that this disease incidence can be reduced effectively by giving two drug to the people in affected com...

Scientists identify Genes Needed For Muscle Development

... recently discovered group of genes first found in worm 12 years ago. Only in the past few years have they been recognised as essential gene regulators in many multi-cellular organisms, including humans, the study authors said in an article that appeared in the latest online edition of the journal Natur...

Protein Secreted By Worm Eggs Holds Key To Anti-inflammatory Therapy

... selected to modulate the host to tolerate chronic worm infections, often for decades, without overt morbi...ever, the researchers warn that infection with the worm can cause illness and death, so it would be inappropriate to infect people intentionally. They are c...

Antibiotics help combat dangerous tropical disease

... called wuchereria bancrofti, this is a threadlike worm They go and house themselves in the body’s lymph n...ce in the blood circulation they mature into adult worm and settle in their lymph nodes and the cycle keeps repeating. "Although the drugs currently in use...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...e in the nematode worm. It was discovered that the worm used tiny pieces of double-stranded RNA to switch off rogue genes that would otherwise harm it. Subsequently, researchers found that synthetically produced RNA sequences could be used to target genes in human cells. Using this discovery, scientists w...

WORM! WORM! all the way

... with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The worm research represents perhaps the most extreme example of a field known as probiotics: the use of living organisms to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and other organs. Dr. Joel Weinstock and colleagues conducted a study wherein 20 to 30 p...

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