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“The meninges are the final tissue barrier before pathogens enter the brain, so we have to focus our treatment efforts on what happens at this border tissue,” said study first author Felipe Pinho-Ribeiro, a former post-doctoral researcher in the Chiu lab, now an assistant professor at Washi...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A specific protein on the surface of a common bacterial pathogen allows the bacteria to leave the bloodstream and enter the brain, initiating the deadly infection known as meningitis. The new finding, which may guide development of improved vaccines to protect those most vulnera...
Direct influences on the brain The microbiome can also have a more direct influence on brain chemistry by altering neurotransmission in the enteric (gut) nervous system. Because the enteric nervous system communicates with the central nervous system, the activities of microbes can actually regulate lev...
This study was conducted on young mice. The implications are that older mice might experience more cognitive impairment from an unhealthy diet. What’s more, the high-sugar diet seemed to have a greater effect than a high-fat diet.
with age,” said senior author David M. Holtzman, MD, the Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Distinguished Professor of Neurology. “What’s exciting is that manipulating the gut microbiome could be a way to have an effect on the brain without putting anything directly ...
testaceum occurring naturally on the surface of potato leaf has the potential to protect the plant from bacterial pathogens such as P. carotovorum which causes soft rot disease (Wang et al., 2010). Engineering the production of QQ enzymes into plants and plant-associated microbes is expected to...
The species M. gubbeenense, first described from the Irish smear-ripened cheese Gubbeen (Brennan et al., 2001a,b), has been found in large numbers on the surface of various European cheeses, such as Livarot, Raclette and Tilsit, whereas Microbacterium lacticum is sporadically detected but ...
There have been reports this year in Gulf states of other waterborne illnesses, but they are rare. In fresh water, the Naegleria fowleri amoeba usually feeds on bacteria in the sediment of warm lakes and rivers. If it gets high up in the nose, it can get into the brain. Cases have be...
This rare bacterial infection triggers pus-filled sores in the lungs and brain 'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers BacterialDNAfloats freely within bacterial cells in a twisted, thread-like mass call...