Homeostasis is a fundamental principle of biological systems. A paradigm of immune homeostasis is the remarkably constant number of naive T and B lymphocytes in the body that continuously circulate ...

Washington, DC - April 8, 2019 - Intestinal infection with helminths--a class of worm-like parasites--prevented weight gain in laboratory mice on a high-fat diet. The helminths did so by boosting ...

One day, curing complex intestinal diseases could be as simple as opening a can of worms. Researchers have long had hints that parasites called helminths, or intestinal worms, may in some cases help ...

Parasitic infections caused by protozoan parasites and intestinal helminths are among the most prevalent human infections in developing countries. In developed countries, however, protozoan parasites ...

Infection with parasitic intestinal worms (helminths) can apparently cause sexually transmitted viral in-fections to be much more severe elsewhere in the body. This is shown by a study led by the ...

Should global government and philanthropic aid be invested in large public health deworming programs in low- and middle-income countries? Doctors know intestinal helminths can be unpleasant, but ...

There can’t be any pretense that anyone would want parasitic worms wiggling about in their intestines. Even soil-transmitted helminths — intestinal worms that are contracted in a cringe-inducing ...

Physalopteroides arnoensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Physalopteroidea) from the intestinal tract of the gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris is described and illustrated. Physalopteroides arnoensis is the 18th ...

helminths that infect pigs. After chronic infection with the helminths, they discovered that the animals' metabolism had been changed drastically; specifically, they produced increased levels of a ...

Intestinal worms have an incredibly bad reputation. The thought of them sneaking around inside our bodies and eating us from the inside is pretty unpleasant. But for decades, results coming out of lab ...

Digestive tract helminths of the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) were examined for site specificity and interspecific interactions. Thirty opossums were live-trapped at 2 localities in Georgia ...