From mice performing first aid to birds using antioxidants, animals display remarkable self-medication behaviors that could ...

Fat cells play a surprising role in combating parasites, according to a study published today (October 14) in Science Immunology, which finds that fatty tissue surrounding the intestinal tracts of ...

If you have a pet mouse of your own, you’ll know they make for lively, curious companions. However, because of their small ...

Rodents—such as mice—are reservoirs for many of these tick-borne pathogens, including the bacteria that causes Lyme disease and the parasite that causes babesiosis, among others. There has ...

They observed that parasites introduced into mice from infected mosquitoes migrated to the animals’ livers less efficiently in mice previously immunized against apyrase. The ability to block two forms ...

For these studies, they used the protozoan Plasmodium berghei, a close relative of Plasmodium falciparum that infects mice rather than humans. As hoped, they found a genetically modified parasite ...

thereby injecting its saliva and the parasite-containing gel into the person's skin. Rogers and his colleagues determined that in the early course of infection in mice, the gel plug recruited ...

Newborn mice infected with Cryptosporidium had less parasites in the intestines when treated with the compound AN3661 (bottom). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 6 ...

Meagher, S. and W. K. Potts. 1997. A microsatellite-based MHC genotyping system for house mice Mus domesticus). Hereditas 127:75-82. Becky Eichenseer: Becky is studying parasite community ecology in ...

The mouse serologic panel includes mouse parvovirus 1 (MPV-1 ... skin and gastrointestinal tract are examined for parasites; the intestine, liver, and nasal passages are cultured for bacterial ...