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Researchers find how ticks weaken skin's defense function
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): Scientists have yet to fully comprehend why ticks are such hazardous disease vectors. A team of researchers has discovered that tick saliva suppresses the skin's protective function, increasing the risk of infections like tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) or Lym
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Study reveals that ticks weaken skin's immune response
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): Hitherto, scientists have not fully understood why ticks are such dangerous disease vectors. A research team now shows that tick saliva inhibits the skin's defense function, thereby increasing the risk of diseases such as tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) or
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Tick saliva drug can ease chronic pain, itching in people: Study
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Durham [England], March 8 (ANI): Ticks are small, brown parasites that are known for carrying disease and that can attach to a person's skin and suck their blood. A new research has found that a protein, called Votucalis, found in tick saliva could be turned into a drug that eases itching an
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New medicines for treatment of heart patients discovered by researchers
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Ohio [US], February 26 (ANI): A unique class of medications that acted as blood thinners by inhibiting an enzyme in the genes of tick saliva has been discovered during recent research by the University of Cincinnati.
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Researchers discover new medicines for treating heart patients
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Ohio [US], February 21 (ANI): A recent research by the University of Cincinnati discovered a unique class of medications that acted as blood thinners by inhibiting an enzyme in the genes of tick saliva.
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