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Leishmaniasis
New leishmaniasis study findings reported from S. Bhattacharyya and co-authors
June 17th, 2008
"Early infection with Leishmania donovani during visceral leishmaniasis (VL) results in the enhanced expression of C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) in macrophages. CCR5 expression at different time points of infection revealed increased expression at protein and mRNA level from 3 to 24 h and beyond 24 h expression of CCR5 is downregulated," researchers in Calcutta, India report. "To better understand the functional role of CCR5 during leishmania infection, RNA interference strategy has been used to modulate macrophage function by targeting the expression of CCR5 gene. We found that silencing of CCR5 receptor expression by transfection of CCR5-specific small interfering...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-17)
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