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Another new paper -- by Paul & Naila
Shafie, A., Xue, M., Barker, G., Zehnder, D., Thornalley, P.J., Rabbani, N. (2017) Reappraisal of putative glyoxalase 1-deficient mouse and dicarbonyl stress on embryonic stem cells in vitro. Biochemical Journal 473 4255 - 4270 .
Devastating elephantiasis disease facing elimination
Lymphatic filariasis, a disabling parasitic disease which causes elephantiasis, and threatens around one billion people globally could be eliminated more quickly. Deirdre Hollingsworth and colleagues from the NTD Modelling Consortium (www.ntdmodelling.org) have published a modelling study suggesting that if early results on using a recently proposed combination of three particular drugs for mass drug administration, the disease can be prevented or treated rapidly, in a maximum amount of people, using fewer rounds of drugs.
Irvine, Michael A., Wilma A. Stolk, Morgan E. Smith, Swaminathan Subramanian, Brajendra K. Singh, Gary J. Weil, Edwin Michael, and T. Deirdre Hollingsworth. "Effectiveness of a triple-drug regimen for global elimination of lymphatic filariasis: a modelling study." The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2016) (Also available at http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/84555/)
4 new papers out this week!
- Nev, O.A., van den Berg, H.A. (2017) Variable-Internal-Stores models of microbial growth and metabolism with dynamic allocation of cellular resources. Journal of Mathematical Biology 74 409 - 445 .
- Keeling, M.J., House, T., Cooper, A.J., Pellis, L. (2017) Systematic Approximations to Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible Dynamics on Networks. PLoS Computational Biology , 12 e1005296
- Koukounari, A., Hollingsworth, T.D. (2017) A strengthening evidence-base for mass deworming, but questions remain. The Lancet
- Mteyrek, A., Filipski, E., Guettier, C., Okyar, A., Lévi, F. (2017) Clock gene Per2 as a controller of liver carcinogenesis. Oncotarget 7 ( 52 ) 85832 - 85847