Archive for July, 2009

Crocodile du sang pour les traitements futurs!

July 31st, 2009

crocodile-blood-anti-hivIt is hoped the proteins can be used as a basis for new antibacterial and antiviral drugs to treat human infections.

The next step is to work out the exact chemical structure of the antibiotic proteins.

The researchers are also looking into the possibility of using the crocodile proteins in developing treatments for HIV after showing white blood cells from crocodiles could destroy the virus in a Petri dish. » Read more: Crocodile du sang pour les traitements futurs!

Scientists can tap AIDS-killing properties of crocodile blood

July 30th, 2009

aids-killingScientists discovered that a crocodile’s immune system was able to combat antibiotic-resistant diseases, and even AIDS, significantly better than the human immune system, so Wired News reports that scientists in Australia are collecting blood from crocodiles, hoping to make it the basis for an antibiotic for humans. » Read more: Scientists can tap AIDS-killing properties of crocodile blood

Amélioration de l'homme’ de sang avec des crocodiles’ – hemoglobin hybrid developed that binds bicarbonate ions

July 29th, 2009

Improving human blood with crocodile hemoglobinAnyone who has tried swimming laps without taking a breath, or having an underwater tea party as a kid, should respect crocodiles. Those thick-skinned reptiles can remain below the water’s surface for over an hour.

Researchers had known that when crocodiles hold their breath underwater, carbon dioxide builds up in their blood, dissolves, and forms bicarbonate ions. Those ions bind to amino acids in hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component of red blood cells. The bicarbonate ions cause the hemoglobin to release oxygen molecules, making them more readily available to tissue, N. Hennakao Komiyama of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Cambridge, England, and his colleagues explain in the Jan. 19 Nature. » Read more: Amélioration de l'homme’ de sang avec des crocodiles’ – hemoglobin hybrid developed that binds bicarbonate ions

Pourriez du sang de crocodile vous sauver la vie?

28 juillet, 2009

crocodile bloodDeux producteurs de télévision mis à faire un film sur les crocodiles. Quelques mois plus tard, après beaucoup de prouesses dans la chasse outback australien crocs, ils sont revenus avec plus que juste un rouleau de bande vidéo. Ils ont également ramené des échantillons de le sang de crocodile qui pourraient, pourrait bien, présentent au monde un nouveau type d'antibiotique.

Avec l'aide d'un scientifique aux États-Unis, Ils ont analysé le sang et a trouvé qu'il contenait un agent unique qui joue un rôle clé dans la défense du crocodile contre l'infection. Si l'agent à la hauteur de sa promesse initiale et peuvent être développés à usage humain, il pourrait un jour aider à lutter contre le problème mondial de la résistance aux antibiotiques. Ils l'ont appelé Crocodillin. » Read more: Pourriez du sang de crocodile vous sauver la vie?

Superbugs Croc Bataille de sang

July 27th, 2009
Crocodile bloodScientists in the United States have isolated a powerful agent in le sang de crocodile which could help conquer human infections immune standard antibiotics.
The discovery was made thanks to the curiosity of a BBC science producer filming a documentary about saltwater crocodiles in Australia, the BBC director general Greg Dyke on Thursday showed.
Our producer noticed something that surprised herdespite the horrendous injuries the Crocs imposed on each other, their wounds rarely get infected,” he told the annual dinner of the Science Museum in London.
He spoke with a young croc expert who agreed that it would be interesting to try to discover why.
After many adventures, had their blood samples and last week a leading research institutes isolated from these samples of what I’m told is a novel antimicrobial peptide. » Read more: Superbugs Croc Bataille de sang

New Super antibiotics Found accidentally In crocodiles

July 26th, 2009

crocodile blood antibioticsA BBC television producer working in Australia has stumbled on a substance that can kill the bacteria immune standard antibiotics.

The BBC director general Greg Dyke, said the discovery was made during the filming of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia for a science documentary.

Says the producer noticed that despite the horrendous injuries crocodiles inflict on each other, their wounds rarely get infected.

The documentary team has obtained a blood sample from a coconut and researchers have since isolated what they described as a novel antimicrobial peptide. » Read more: New Super antibiotics Found accidentally In crocodiles

Crocodile Hemoglobin

July 25th, 2009

Crocodile HemoglobinThai freshwater crocodile breeds have become a global phenomenon with consumers demanding crocodile there personal products for the beauty of body and body maintenance. Particularly in Asia where consumer demand for le sang de crocodile to be used to build up his immunity and increase the strength of the body and the treatment of asthma.

Crocodiles usually stay underwater for more than an hour, hunting and drowning their prey. Water can remain under for so long because of the crocodile that fills with hemoglobin in the blood with bicarbonate ions, the end product of respiration.

Since the bicarbonate ons raise the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin is reduced, which in turn brings a large percentage of hemoglobin bound oxygen in tissue. » Read more: Crocodile Hemoglobin

Crocodile blood to Fight AIDS (Partie II)

July 24th, 2009

fight aidsIf you take a test tube of HIV and add crocodile serum will have a greater effect of human serum. You can kill a much greater number of HIV viral organisms,” Britton said from Darwin’s Crocodylus Park, a tourism park and research center.

Britton said the crocodile immune system worked differently from the human system by directly attacking bacteria immediately an infection occurred in the body.

The crocodile has an immune system which attaches to bacteria and tears it apart and exploding. Itlike putting a gun to the head of the bacteria and pulling the trigger,” Il a dit. » Read more: Crocodile blood to Fight AIDS (Partie II)

Crocodile blood to Fight AIDS (Partie I)

July 24th, 2009

Stop-AIDS-HandScientists in the tropical north of Australia are collecting blood from crocodiles in the hope of developing a powerful antibiotic for humans, after tests showed that the reptile immune system kills the HIV virus.

The crocodile immune system is much more powerful than human beings, the prevention of infection hazardous to wildlife, after territorial fights which often leave the animals with Gaping wounds and missing limbs. » Read more: Crocodile blood to Fight AIDS (Partie I)

Crocodile blood kills the bacteria

July 23rd, 2009

bacteriaCrocodiles living in bacteria-infested waters, the sick animals to eat, and fight with other Crocs. Your skin may be ripped open or their limbs torn in battle. But heal quickly and rarely infection. This has led scientists to wonder how a crocodile immune system work.

A research institute led le sang de crocodile and a number of strains of bacteria, including the new, more resistant bacteria. If a drop of blood from crocodiles is in the midst of a court culture of bacteria, kills all the bacteria in the vicinity. Crocodile kills the virus serum much better the human immune system.

The crocodile has an immune system which attaches to bacteria and tears it apart and exploding. Andas if you have a gun to the head of the bacteria and pulling the trigger,” said Australian scientist Adam Britton. » Read more: Crocodile blood kills the bacteria