samurai7Mar 18, 20191 minMessage in a Vesicle – Trans-kingdom Intercommunication Joao H. F. Pedra of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and his team published a new review paper that briefly discusses exosome and microvesicle b...
samurai7Feb 5, 20192 minRole of Mannose Binding Lectin in the Immune Response against BorreliaErol Fikrig and team at the Yale University School of Medicine published a new paper examining the role of Mannose Binding Lectin (MBL) in the immune respons...
samurai7Feb 1, 20191 minMutational Analysis of Gene function in the AnaplasmataceaeUlrike Munderloh and team at the University of Minnesota published a new paper on mutational analysis of gene function. Mutational analysis is an efficient a...
samurai7Feb 1, 20191 minBorrelia Protein Interactions Critical for Persistence in Mammals Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park published a review on the interactions between Borrelia burgdorferi proteins, as well as betwe...
samurai7Jan 2, 20192 minActivation of the Immune Deficiency Pathway in Black-legged Ticks Researchers identify the molecule p47 as a binding partner that induces a signaling cascade to limit microbial infection Researchers at the University of Mar...
samurai7Nov 14, 20181 minCharacterization of Tick OATPs on Bacterial and Viral InfectionsUtpal Pal and his team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper characterizing the roles of Ixodes scapularis organic anion transp...
samurai7Nov 1, 20182 minVector Immunity and Evolutionary Ecology: The Harmonious Dissonance How evolution has shaped vector immunity, calling for immunologists and evolutionary ecologists to work together to tackle some of these emerging diseases Ti...
samurai7Jul 1, 20182 minIdentification of Lyme Borreliae Proteins Promoting Survival in Ixodes NymphsUtpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper identifying proteins that affect survival of Borrelia in Ixodes ticks. ...
samurai7Jun 1, 20182 minVisualization of Microbiota in Tick Guts by Whole-mount In Situ HybridizationErol Fikrig and team from the Yale University School of Medicine have published a method to visualize the microbiota in tick guts using whole-mount in situ h...
samurai7Jun 1, 20182 minHost-Specific Expression of Tick Salivary GenesFindings provide new insight into vector-host interactions and offer a functional paradigm to better understand the phenomenon of acquired tick-resistance New...
samurai7May 29, 20182 minIxodes Immune Responses Against Lyme Disease PathogensUtpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new review of recent studies in immune response against Lyme disease pathogens. A...
samurai7May 10, 20181 minBorrelia Surface Protein Processed into Peptides for Microbial Persistence Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper highlighting a newly discovered mechanism for Borrelia persistence. One...
samurai7Apr 3, 20183 minProtein Used to Outsmart the Human Immune SystemFindings have major implications for tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease A UMD researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the bacteria that causes Lyme...
samurai7Oct 15, 20171 minMethods in Microbiology: Artificial Infection of Ticks with BorreliaUtpal Pal of the University of Maryland, College Park, edited a book in the Methods in Microbiology series on Borrelia burgdorferi Methods and Protocols. As ...
