Researchers identify mechanism that helps bacteria avoid destruction in cells Oct 10, 2009
Intracellular pathogens, like Chlamydia and Legionella, must contend with vesicular trafficking and membrane fusion in the host cell. But they manage to bypass the lysosome, where other pathogens would normally be destroyed. (EurekAlert!)
Everton and Linear Announce First Phase Drill Results on Ampliacion Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic-Second Phase Drilling to Start in November Oct 9, 2009
In the north sector, holes APV09-11, -12, -13, -14 and -15 drilled into massive to disseminated mineralization hosted in strongly silicified vesicular basalts. The mineralization has characteristics suggestive of a volcanogenic massive sulphide-type (VMS) of occurrence, and is also associated with a zone of extensive stockwork veining. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Labs at centre of outbreak Jul 28, 2009
As well as foot-and-mouth, the institute also focuses on diseases in cattle, sheep, horses and pigs, including lumpy skin disease, rinderpest, African swine fever, swine vesicular disease and equine encephalosis. The institute's findings are supplied to Defra, the Department of Health and the Department for International Development. (BBC News -- Science)
UGA incinerations draw fire Jul 22, 2009
The inspection came one day after a UGA employee asked EPD inspectors to clarify what substances could be burned under the university's air-quality permit - specifically, manure from horses experimentally infected with a disease called vesicular stomatitis in the vet school's Animal Health Research Center. The research center, or AHRC, is a high-security lab where scientists conduct research on potentially harmful animal diseases. (Athens Banner-Herald)
A Man with Fever, Headache, Rash, and Vomiting Jul 16, 2009
2 The authors note that the rash in this patient was nonvesicular, which is why they excluded infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). On the other hand, acute HIV infection cannot be ruled out in the presence of a vesicular rash ... We evaluated a 28-year-old man presenting with fever and a diffuse vesicular eruption associated with some pustular and crusted. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Horse Virus Affects Two Countries Jun 29, 2009
The virus is vesicular stomatitis, a viral disease that causes cyclic outbreaks in cattle, horses, donkeys, mules and pigs. Copyright 2009 by. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Mouse model of Parkinson's reproduces nonmotor symptoms Jun 23, 2009
The mice were engineered to be deficient in VMAT2 (vesicular monoamine transporter 2), a protein that helps to store the brain chemicals Parkinson's patients gradually lose the ability to produce. Miller and his colleagues previously published a description of the neurodegeneration of the VMAT2-deficient mice, but focusing on the part of the brain associated with Parkinson's motor symptoms. (EurekAlert!)
Could Hormones Explain Gender Differences In Neurological Disease? Jun 18, 2009
The authors found that estradiol-mediated dopamine efflux is DAT-specific and not dependent on extracellular Ca2+-mediated vesicular release of dopamine. Using kinase inhibitors they also showed that estradiol-mediated dopamine efflux is dependent on specific signaling kinases (protein kinase C and MEK, but not on PI3K or protein kinase A). (Science Daily)
Kentucky limits Nebraska, Texas livestock Jun 17, 2009
Kentucky also has banned entry of livestock from Starr County in south Texas because a horse there has been diagnosed with vesicular stomatits, a viral disease that can affect horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats and deer. Reader Comments. (Louisville Business First, KY)
Dakotas restrict livestock imports from Texas Jun 17, 2009
LOADING Jun 17, 2009 - 04:04:52 CDT By BLAKE NICHOLSON Associated Press Writer North Dakota and South Dakota on Tuesday joined the states placing restrictions on livestock imports from Texas after a case of vesicular stomatitis was found in a horse there ... In both Dakotas, livestock imports from Texas must be accompanied by a health certificate confirming the animal did not come from an area where vesicular stomatitis is present ... "We have not had a problem with vesicular stomatitis in South... (Minnesota Farm Guide, MN)
Membrane Bound Organelles Jun 17, 2009
They can also serve to direct newly made membrane or vesicular proteins to their site of action. To learn more about the function of organelles and their behaviors visit the University of Texas Medical Branch Graduate Program in or for informative, fun, interactive cartoons of organelles visit. (Suite101.com)
Rules tightened for livestock from Texas Jun 16, 2009
A case of vesicular stomatitis, a disease that afflicts cloven-hoofed livestock and wildlife, was recently confirmed in a horse in Starr County, Texas ... Vesicular stomatitis is a sporadic, re-emerging disease characterized by blister-like lesions on the tongue, lips and soft skin areas of hooved animals, including the udder ... Vesicular stomatitis can pose problems if found here, he said, because other states and nations can take actions similar to South Dakota's, tightening requirements to... (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Can You Lose Your Fingerprints? May 30, 2009
Forensics expert , director of the Program in Law, Science and Public Health at Louisiana State University, explains that "other diseases, rashes and the like can cause vesicular breakdown of the skin on your fingers just a good case of poison ivy would do it." But, he notes, "Left alone, your skin replaces at a fairly good rate, so unless you've done permanent damage to the tissue, it will regenerate.". As fingerprint scanning and other biometrics become more common (visitors seeking entry into... (Scientific American)
One EV71 case confirmed in Hong Kong Apr 3, 2009
A CHP spokesman said the woman presented with diarrhea, oral ulcers and vesicular lesions over her hands on March 30. She sought medical treatment on March 30 and did not need hospitalization. (Xinhuanet, China)
'Neurological Work-arounds' Offer Hope For Conditions Ranging From Addiction To Schizophrenia Feb 28, 2009
To reach this conclusion, Krantz, Simon and colleagues bred fruit flies with what should have been a devastating, life-threatening mutation in the vesicular monoamine transporter gene ... Simon et al. Drosophila Vesicular Monoamine Transporter Mutants Can Adapt to Reduced or Eliminated Vesicular Stores of Dopamine and Serotonin. (Science Daily)
Mathematical Models Reveal How Organisms Transcend The Sum Of Their Genes Feb 11, 2009
He and Lim, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Berkeley, computationally modeled the lifecycle of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a well-studied virus with only five genes and years of background research on its growth and function ... Transmission electron micrograph showing vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) virions. (Science Daily)
