News tagged with endotoxins
50-year cholera mystery solved: Answers may help clear the way for a new class of antibiotics
For 50 years scientists have been unsure how the bacteria that gives humans cholera manages to resist one of our basic innate immune responses. That mystery has now been solved, thanks to research from biologists at The University ...
May 29, 2012 |
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New test puts the squeeze on horseshoe crabs
If new technology under development proves out, horseshoe crabs will have to undergo fewer blood donations.
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Roundworm could provide new treatment for sepsis
Research by the University of Liverpool has found that systemic inflammation caused by sepsis can be suppressed by a protein which occurs naturally in a type of roundworm.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Insulin may reduce several inflammatory factors induced by bacterial infection
Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their chances of succumbing to the infection, if results of a new preliminary study ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Mexico City air pollution adversely affects the hearts of young people
A post-mortem study of the hearts of 21 young people in Mexico City has found that the heart begins to show the adverse effects of air pollution at a young age and that tiny bits of inactivated bacteria that hitch a ride ...
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later
New research presents strong evidence that the "synergistic" effect of early-life exposure to both outdoor traffic-related pollution and indoor endotoxin causes more harm to developing lungs than one or the other exposure ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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