NLRP1 has been shown to confer macrophage sensitivity to anthrax lethal toxin ( LT ), suggesting the role of bacterial toxins in inducing inflammasome formation.
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However, bacterial toxins, such as diphtheria toxin, which is used in denileukin diftitox, an FDA-approved treatment for leukemia and lymphoma, have proven to be more practical.
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The report identifies the bacteria as Clostridium perfringens, and says genetic tests found a particularly deadly bacterial toxin, epsilon toxin, that most likely came from shellfish.
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In Moscow, she had developed a system for rapid detection of bacterial toxins and other pathogens _ something of critical importance if attacked by a biological weapon.
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Branham retired from the NIH in 1958 at the age of seventy from the position of Chief of the Section on Bacterial Toxins, and died November 16, 1962.
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Jones was selected as Miss Homewood Area 2001 then, in early 2001, Jones was diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome, a potentially fatal illness caused by a bacterial toxin.
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And another study shows that gum disease may increase a woman's risk of having a low-weight baby because bacterial toxins released into the bloodstream interfere with fetal development.
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Alwin Max Pappenheimer Jr ., a biochemist and immunologist at Harvard University who helped to unlock the secrets of bacterial toxins, died Tuesday at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.
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A very fortuitous thing happened in the 1960s when researchers Frederik Bang and Jack Levin discovered that horseshoe crab blood solidifies _ coalesces _ in the presence of these bacterial toxins.
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The studies did find that one type of BT corn, known as Event 176, would harm some butterflies because it has extremely high levels of the bacterial toxin in its pollen.
