News tagged with antimicrobial antibodies

New treatment for rabies advances after successful phase 1 trial in India

With the potential to save tens of thousands of lives each year, a new cost-effective rabies therapy developed by MassBiologics at the University of Massachusetts and the Serum Institute of India took an important step forward ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antimicrobial antibodies in celiac disease: Trick or treat?

Anti-microbial antibody formation has been reported in celiac disease. Relatively high positivity rates were observed for the conventional antibodies, for example, ASCA, anti-OmpW, and anti-I2, and they were known to decrease ...

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created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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New probiotic bacteria shows promise for use in shellfish aquaculture

The use of probiotic bacteria, isolated from naturally-occurring bacterial communities, is gaining in popularity in the aquaculture industry as the preferred, environmentally-friendly management alternative to the use of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Going to the dogs: University's newest patent for improving canine health

Make no bones about it, a discovery by a Kansas State University research team could mean a longer and healthier life for man's best friend.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antibiotics cure anthrax in animal models

In the absence of early antibiotic treatment, respiratory anthrax is fatal. The 2001 bioterrorism attacks in the US killed four people, out of 22 infected (10 of them with respiratory anthrax), despite massive antibiotic ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers put potent staph killer to the test, hope for new drug treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Standard antibiotics, and even those reserved for the most defiant infections, are fighting an uphill battle against the evolutionary ingenuity of bacterial defenses. Staphylococci, and especially methicillin-resistant ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study suggests that being too clean can make people sick

Young people who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan may suffer more allergies, and exposure to higher levels of Bisphenol A among adults may negatively influence the immune system, a new University ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Microfluidic device allows collection, analysis of hard-to-handle immune cells

A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) scientists has developed a new microfluidic tool for quickly and accurately isolating neutrophils - the most abundant type of white blood cell - from small blood samples, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Alzheimer's-associated protein may be part of the innate immune system

the primary constituent of the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients - may be part of the body's first-line system to defend against infection. In their report in the March 3 issue of the open-access ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hungry immune guardians are snappier

German researchers have discovered an elementary mechanism which regulates vital immune functions in healthy people. In situations of hunger which mean stress for the body's cells, the body releases more antimicrobial ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Key feature of immune system survived in humans, other primates for 60 million years

A new study has concluded that one key part of the immune system, the ability of vitamin D to regulate anti-bactericidal proteins, is so important that is has been conserved through almost 60 million years of evolution and ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

New intranasal influenza vaccine triggers robust immunity with significantly less antigen

A single administration of a novel, nasally delivered influenza vaccine elicited immune responses in ferrets that were more than 20 times higher than those generated by two injections of the currently approved vaccines, according ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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