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Computerized rehabilitation for cognitive deficits after central nervous system malaria in Ugandan children
(2011-01-11)
Background: Malaria infecting the central nervous system (CNS) affects over 575,000 children annually in sub-Saharan Africa leading to cognitive deficits. The effect of this form of malaria on everyday behaviour and academic ...
Recessive parkinsonism, mitochondria and translational regulation
(2008-09-05)
Three genes are known to cause recessive forms of Parkinson disease (PD) in humans: parkin, PINK1 and DJ-1. Of these, the rarest is DJ-1; less than fifty known cases worldwide are due to mutations in DJ-1. Though rare, ...
Virus-host interactions : entry and replication of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
(2014-04-25)
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a severe acute human disease with potential lethal outcome caused by a virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV). Not much is known regarding how CCHFV infects cells, ...
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus : interactions with host cell structures in viral replication
(2008-10-02)
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a human pathogen, and
was first associated with its corresponding disease during an outbreak in
the mid 1940s. At that time, outbreaks were mainly restricted to the
former ...
Dissection of virus-host cell interactions in the early response to infection
(2014-09-05)
Stress granules (SG) are dynamic RNA/protein assemblies in the cytoplasm of the cell, formed under conditions of oxidative stress, heat shock or viral infections. These stress conditions trigger a sudden translational ...