To test the TG - 18 hydrogel, we exposed the gel to several different
kinds of environments mimicking conditions in arthritic joints,» said Nitin Joshi, co-first author on the work an Instructor of Medicine at BWH.
To identify which proteins were likely turned on or off during Salmonella infection, the team grew the bacteria either with rich food that satisfied all their nutritional needs or with nutrient - poor food that
mimicked the
kind of stressful
environment the microbes find themselves in while infecting someone.