Here’s a new article from the University of Manchester, finding worms are a key part of a well orchestrated immune system. Is it just me, or are you getting a little tired of the avalanche of proof while we wait patiently suffering, unable to afford or receive our worms? We want worms and we want [...]
http://www.ehjournal.net/content/8/S1/S17 I don’t know how this relates to hookworms or whipworms, but the thought before was that no pathogens could be transmitted from the parasites. This study shows that even when washed in an anti-microbial solution, certain pathogens remained and were capable of being passed on to an infected host. It mentions mycobacteria avium was [...]
ISSN 1007-9327 CN 14-1219/R World J Gastroenterol 2010 February 14; 16(6): 703-712 Schistosoma mansoni proteins attenuate gastrointestinal motility disturbances during experimental colitis in mice http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/16/703.asp Injecting worm proteins into mice given colitis resulted in decreased gastric motility (less bowel movements) and amelioration of inflammation. Pretty good stuff. This means that worm proteins will eventually be [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Disappointing. 10 hookworms didn’t really work statistically for asthma or allergies, but there were immune changes. I wonder what “mimic most closely natural infection” means (last line of abstract for asthma study)? Less at once, more often? Or more than 10? I am feeing extraordinarily lucky that 10 hookworms caused such a pronounced change in [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Article after article extolling the virtues of helminths’ ability to prevent allergies and autoimmune diseases always end in quotes like this: “The hope is that the work could aid the development of new treatments which work in the same way as gut parasites, by dampening down or rebalancing the immune system so that the body [...]