My second paper this week :(
So I got stuck with a paper to present tomorrow - normally we get a day off in between presentations!!Only part that makes it more interesting for me is that the paper was written by someone I use to work with at Trudeau :)
Well off to read the paper and meet with my group - I'm presenting the discussion section.
posted by Sara @ 12:56 pm
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Oh yeah - feel free to drop me any ideas you have for discussion of this paper :)
Well two parasitological things:
1) N. brasiliensis is a rat nematode not a mouse nematode. Although it infects mice, it is cleared pretty rapidly and full immunity to reinfection results
2) S. mansoni infection of mice is a very common model, but what you see in the mouse can be quite different from what you see in the rat or human
see here for example: http://www.jimmunol.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/3/1266
(Our results provide the first explanation for the long-lasting controversy about the rat vs the mouse as an animal model for parasitic infections.)
See Capron 1986 Parasitology Today 2:69-75 article
can you send the info for the JImmunol article again - the link doesn't work, I'm getting an article on SEB
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