Early preclinical work led by researchers from Harvard Medical School has found certain elements in a toxin produced by the anthrax bacterium can silence activity in pain-signaling brain neurons ...

The anthrax toxin is made up of three elements that work in concert to attack a person's immune system and lead to severe infection. Previous work has identified how two of the toxin's players ...

Anthrax Inhibitor Counteracts Toxin, May Lead To New Therapeutics Date: April 23, 2006 Source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Summary: Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the ...

Two groups of researchers announced today key features of how anthrax toxin destroys cells. In back-to-back papers in the journal Nature, investigators identify how one part of the toxin gets into ...

Researchers announced today key features of how anthrax toxin destroys cells. In two papers in the journal Nature, investigators identify how one part of the toxin gets into cells and how another ...

The two toxins produced by anthrax, called lethal toxin and edema toxin, damage many types of cells, but it was thought that their effects on endothelial cells, which line blood and lymph vessels ...

Researchers say using a bacterial toxin to deliver substances into neurons and modulate their function represents a new way to target pain-mediating neurons.

Anthrax toxin receptor (ATR), as it was named, is a protein with 368 amino acids, or units, in a chain. A stretch of it resembles some other cellular receptors in the body, but its normal function ...

Anthrax, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is often treatable in its early stages. But once the disease has progressed beyond the "point of no return" after just a ...

Anthrax toxin, secreted by the anthrax bacterium, is made of proteins and toxic enzymes that bind together to inflict damage on a host organism. The inhibitor, which is described by the Rensselaer ...