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Source: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/02/c...ing-bugs-bite/
Cure in sight for kissing bug?s bite
by Craig Boerner | Posted on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 ? 10:15 AM
...In The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), Galina Lepesheva, Ph.D., and her colleagues at Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College report curing both the acute and chronic forms of the infection in mice with a small molecule, VNI.
VNI specifically inhibits a T. cruzi enzyme essential for cell multiplication and integrity. In mouse models of Chagas disease, VNI achieved cures with 100 percent survival and without toxic side effects...
Cure in sight for kissing bug?s bite
by Craig Boerner | Posted on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 ? 10:15 AM
...In The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), Galina Lepesheva, Ph.D., and her colleagues at Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College report curing both the acute and chronic forms of the infection in mice with a small molecule, VNI.
VNI specifically inhibits a T. cruzi enzyme essential for cell multiplication and integrity. In mouse models of Chagas disease, VNI achieved cures with 100 percent survival and without toxic side effects...