研究人员经过四年的深入研究发现，猪蛔虫（ Ascaris suum ）分泌的细胞外囊泡能够显著降低患有结肠炎的小鼠体内的炎症水平。这项研究为开发治疗人类炎性肠病的新型疗法奠定了基础。研究者Sharifpour解释道：“我们在多次体外实验中发现，猪蛔虫分泌的细胞外囊泡通过靶向作用特定的血细胞来降低机体的炎症反应。” ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune response against parasites. During a parasitic infection, specific immune cells, known as virtual memory T cells ...

Never mind allergies, scientists are investigating the more dramatic theory that parasitic worms could improve the symptoms of or even cure debilitating diseases in humans. Some researchers think that ...

estimates that more than 1.5 billion people – nearly 24 per cent of the global population – are infected with soil-transmitted helminths, a type of parasitic worm. Meanwhile, diseases like ...

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

Soil-transmitted worm diseases have decreased recently, but parasitic diseases are on the rise, such as dog and cat ...