This work suggests a new direction of study that would allow researchers to capitalize on the natural competition between pathogens to control the
emergence of drug resistance.
«For years, researchers have focused on delivering more chemotherapy drugs into cancer cells using nanoparticles, without targeting the
root of drug resistance,» He said.
Your local veterinarian will also make that decision based on which parasites are most common in your area and the
degree of drug resistance that those parasites have attained.
The goals of this five - year grant are to better understand how drug resistance spreads in a population and to identify the genetic
basis of drug resistance.
And past research has shown a threshold at which treating more cases leads to a higher
incidence of drug resistance, making the disease difficult to treat and contain.
The new treatments have been specifically developed to reduce the
chance of drug resistance evolving in the parasite population.
In addition, these data suggest that bacteria that survive within host cells contribute significantly to infectious disease pathology, and should be considered a potential
source of drug resistance.
This opens immense potential to shorten the sample - to - results time and is likely to lead to enormous benefits in rapid diagnosis of bacterial infection and
identification of drug resistance.
The study found several genes that are associated with resistance to antibiotics, including new genes that might point to previously unknown
mechanisms of drug resistance.
For the past decade, Gerry Wright has been trying to understand the rise
of drug resistance by combing through the world's richest natural source of resistance - enabling DNA: a clod of dirt.
Dantas and his colleagues continue to study factors that affect the
spread of drug resistance in bacterial communities in hospitals, the environment and the human digestive tract.
The expression of the tumoral multidrug resistance gene (MDR1), which encodes P - glycoprotein, and NANOG, a stem - cell marker and a regulator of the expression
of drug resistance genes, was determined using qRT - PCR.
Not only should pets NOT be given unnecessary medications, but the rapidly developing
issue of drug resistance should make us even more reluctant to over-use heartworm preventatives.
When they periodically analyzed the
levels of drug resistance in the colony, they saw something unexpected: although the entire population was thriving in the presence of the drug, only a few individual bacteria were actually resistant.
Three decades later, Prichard's laboratory is conducting vanguard research in understanding the
genetics of drug resistance in parasitic nematodes, which infect more than 350 million people in dozens of developing countries.
A test that can distinguish between bacterial and viral infections could prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics that speeds the rise of drug resistance
Instead, many people end up with less expensive but ineffective drugs such as chloroquine and artemisinin monotherapies, which increase the
risk of drug resistance.
We find evolution has shifted from multiple
origins of drug resistance («soft sweeps») to single origins («hard sweeps») as treatments have improved.
«Seeing a common
theme of drug resistance in this well - characterised worm is extremely important because both people and animals are reliant on so few treatments against parasitic worms.»
«Although initial remission rates are high with available treatments, the disease comes back
because of drug resistance that leads to relapse.
Detection technique may pave the way for a more tailored treatment that delays the onset of drug resistance
«Our paper demonstrates in a laboratory model how cancer can evade this class of therapy, and it provides insights into how clinical trials for these therapies could be further developed to overcome the
problem of drug resistance,» he adds.
Globalization, changing climate, and the
threat of drug resistance have conspired to set the stage for that perfect microbial storm: a situation in which an emerging pathogen — another HIV or smallpox, perhaps — might burst on the scene and kill millions before we can respond.
The researchers previously emphasized that pretreatment of cancer cells with epigenetic drugs in addition to standard chemotherapy may sensitize these cells to other cytotoxic (anti-cancer) drugs, especially important in the
setting of drug resistance.
The strategy was containment: Build a firewall around
areas of drug resistance by ramping up control measures, such as bednets, rapid diagnostic tests, and ACTs.
His current specific interest is the elucidation of novel mechanisms
of drug resistance through the discovery / identification of novel gene function (s) and phenotypes using RNAi - mediated gene silencing or cDNA overexpression.
This special issue of Science focuses on diverse areas where public health can be improved by making better use of the resources we have in our grasp, ranging from tailoring engineering projects to meet the needs of material - and infrastructure - limited regions, to building a surveillance network for the
detection of drug resistance, to empowering women.
Now a new study has shown that microorganisms can use a temporary silencing of drug targets — known as epimutations — to gain the
benefits of drug resistance without the commitment.
In answer to the first question, we analyze how the
mode of drug resistance evolution changed within patients throughout the epidemic using historical HIV sequences.
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Signs of drug resistance can be identified which can help doctors and patients make informed decisions about treatment,» Cebon says.
«Both the increase in cell envelope thickness and in the outer membrane vesicles may be
indicative of drug resistance mechanisms being activated in the spaceflight samples,» Zea said.
Phrases with «of drug resistance»