Sentences with phrase «invasion by this parasite»

Successful invasion by the parasite can cause flulike illness, and in severe cases, death.

The association of the Duffy blood group (FY) with P. vivax human malaria has been well - documented, where Duffy - negative individuals are naturally resistant to invasion by this parasite [2].

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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.

Scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have discovered a key process during the invasion of the blood cell by the Malaria parasite, and more importantly, found a way to block this invasion.

Scientists 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.

The newly invented technique utilises a high - throughput fluorescence scanning approach — if antibodies or drugs fail to prevent the invasion of the red blood cell by the malaria parasites, the sample will light up.

Now, the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology Team at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, headed by Professor Cevayir COBAN, have used mouse malaria models to show that robust immune activation and invasion of parasite by - products into the bone marrow during and after malaria infection leads to an adverse balance in bone homeostasis - a process usually tightly controlled - by bone forming osteoblasts and bone resorbing osteoclasts.

That effort has been helped by extra funding from the Australian government (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) to look at pheromones and spawning - site choice in toads; from the Invasive Animals Co-Operative Research Centre to explore effects of parasites on toads in Queensland; and from the Western Australians Department of Environment & Conservation, to understand frog and toad parasites at the toad invasion front.

Conversely, down - regulation of PKAc1 or stabilisation of a dominant - negative PKAr isoform that does not bind cAMP triggers premature parasite egress from infected cells followed by serial invasion attempts leading to host cell lysis.