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Article: Study by UC San Diego Researchers Gives New Insight Into How Anthrax Bacteria Can Evade Host's Immune Response.
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- January 6, 2004
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Byline: University of California, San Diego
LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have determined how toxin produced by anthrax bacteria blocks a person's normal immune response, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for anthrax infection.
In a paper to be published in the Jan. 15 issue of The Journal of Immunology the UCSD scientists show why, in the presence of anthrax toxin, human immune cells fail to respond normally to lipopolysaccharide-a component of the cell walls of many bacteria including the bacteria that cause anthrax, Bacillus anthracis. Bacterial invasion, or the ...