Schistosoma mansoni and its close relatives are parasitic ... and report that the receptor is found widely on nerve cells in both larvae and adult worms. When they used various ways to interfere ...

mansoni and S. haematobium were made available by the national ministries of health in nine countries where schistosomiasis ... the heterogeneity of underlying adult parasite loads (which was ...

While several species of blood fluke worms can cause schistosomiasis, the current study focused on Schistosoma mansoni. This species causes the intestinal and hepatic form of the disease, which ...

INFESTATION by Schistosoma mansoni is generally known to cause gastrointestinal symptoms and, not infrequently, bilharzial hepatic fibrosis, which may lead to portal hypertension of intrahepatic ...

The Schistosoma mansoni parasitic worm agefotostock / Alamy Stock Photo Insights into the mechanism of action of the only effective drug against schistosomiasis (bilharzia), could open new avenues to ...

the current study focused on Schistosoma mansoni. This species causes the intestinal and hepatic form of the disease, which results in various gastrointestinal symptoms. However, more severe cases ...

Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum both cause the debilitating disease schistosomiasis, otherwise known as Bilharzia. The work has already uncovered targets for new treatments for the ...

Much like its free-living relatives, the flatworm Schistosoma mansoni has a population of stem cells known as neoblasts that are capable of self-renewal, but the function of these cells was ...

The waterborne creature, Schistosoma mansoni, hitches a ride in aquatic snail tissue before emerging into water, where it can bore into swimming or wading people, according to the U.S. Centers for ...

Biochemist David L. Williams of Illinois State University in Normal, and his colleagues identified the enzyme in the Schistosoma mansoni worm in earlier research. To test TGR’s importance to the ...