Details of the life-cycles of P. falciparum and P.ovale, two of the parasites that cause malaria, are revealed by Hiroshi Suemizu at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasaki and researchers affiliated with ...
Oct 27, 2015
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Today's frontline drug to fight malaria, artemisinin has a history going back many centuries, for it traces its past to ancient Chinese medicine.
Oct 6, 2015
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Scientists uncover a port of liver entry for malaria parasites in a report published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine. If these results hold up in humans, drugs that target this entry protein might help prevent the ...
Jul 27, 2015
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Of the two species of Plasmodium parasites commonly infecting humans, P. vivax grows exclusively in immature red blood cells called reticulocytes. P. falciparum can infect reticulocytes, but it grows primarily in mature red ...
Jun 4, 2015
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By increasing the stiffness of erythrocytes infected by the causal agent of malaria, Viagra favors their elimination from the blood circulation and may therefore reduce transmission of the parasite from humans to mosquitoes. ...
May 8, 2015
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Researchers at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute have identified a protein on the surface of human red blood cells that serves as an essential entry point for invasion by the malaria parasite. ...
May 7, 2015
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Scientists have uncovered a potential mode of parasite drug resistance in malaria infection, according to a report published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.
May 4, 2015
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Drug resistance to the critical antimalarial therapeutics of the artemisinin family has emerged in Southeast Asia, highlighting the need to understand how these drugs work and how they can be used more effectively. Research ...
Apr 22, 2015
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It has long been known that people with blood type O are protected from dying of severe malaria. In a study published in Nature Medicine, a team of Scandinavian scientists explains the mechanisms behind the protection that ...
Mar 9, 2015
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Up to one million people, mainly pregnant woman and young children, are killed each year by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes the most devastating form of human malaria.
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