Free serum amino acid pools of field voles, Microtus montanus, were determined over a 24 hr period, and compared to values obtained from voles infected with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. The majority ...

Polyamines are essential for proliferation of Trypanosoma brucei brucei, and feeding rats polyamine-deficient chow (PDC) decreases their blood polyamine concentrations. Proliferation of T. b. brucei ...

Using an innovative in vitro model of the blood-brain barrier, Dennis Grab of Johns Hopkins University and his colleagues found that Trypanosoma brucei gambiense requires calcium ions and cysteine ...

Researchers from Sebastian Zoll’s group at IOCB Prague determined the first cryo-EM structures of a surface receptor of the human-infective parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in complex with human ...

Human African trypanosomiasis, transmitted by tse-tse fly bite, is a mainly rural disease and is strongly linked to people's living patterns and conditions, proximity to water-courses, in particular.

Evolutionary theory predicts that pairs of chromosomes within asexual organisms will evolve independently of each other and become increasingly different over time in a phenomenon called the 'Meselson ...