Toxoplasma gondii must live inside the cells of its host and secretes many proteins to counter the host's immune defences and to facilitate their own invasion and colonisation of the host cells. The team managed to 'tame' the parasite Toxoplasma gondii - a single-celled opportunistic protozoan capable of infecting a broad range of warm-blooded animals and has been reported in nearly one-third of the world's human population. Scientists leading the study believe that this finding could have broader therapeutic implications for many types of cancers. In this new study, scientists revealed that a parasite found commonly across the globe, is able to sensitise cold tumours - tumours that are not likely to trigger a strong immune response by the body - to immune checkpoint blockade therapy. Improving the effectiveness of treatments against certain types of tumours is vital in order to beat certain cancers, stop tumour progression, and prolong the lives of patients. The research was carried out by experts from the University of Nottingham, Ningbo University and Shanxi Agricultural University in China. The findings of the study were published in the 'Journal for ImmunoTherapy Cancer'.
What they say is, you went for an operation and you had the baby," Mehta said.London, November 4 (ANI): A new study has found that a deadly parasite, known to cause ill health in pregnant women and immunocompromised patients, could potentially be used to treat various types of tumours. Today Bhagat is in good health and leads a normal life, but he still gets teased occasionally. All his life, people in the village where he lived had mercilessly teased him and told him he looked pregnant. The case may have been a medical miracle to doctors, but to Bhagat his condition had been a source of shame and misery. Right after the surgery, Bhagat's pain and inability to breathe disappeared and he recovered immediately. There was no placenta inside Bhagat - the enveloped parasitic twin had connected directly to Bhagat's blood supply. "He didn't want to see it because it was looking very ghastly," Mehta said. He was not interested in knowing what Mehta did to him or seeing what he had removed from his abdomen. What makes his case so unusual is that no one suspected Bhagat had a twin inside him for 36 years.īhagat said he was very much relieved after his operation. Sometimes, however, as in Bhagat's case, the host twin survives and is delivered. Usually, both twins die before birth from the strain of sharing a placenta. The dominant fetus grows, while the fetus that would have been its twin lives on throughout the pregnancy, feeding off its host twin like a kind of parasite. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.Īccording to Mehta, there are fewer than 90 cases of fetus in fetu recorded in medical literature.įetus in fetu happens very early in a twin pregnancy, when one fetus wraps around and envelops the other. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions - fetus in fetu. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach. A Mutated Body Within a BodyĪt first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth.
We were confused and amazed," Mehta said. Inside Bhagat's stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands that were very developed. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. "He just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside," she said.
0 kommentar(er)
