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News About Pfizer's Most Popular Pill

posted by martyb on Saturday May 23 2015, @08:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the giving-malaria-the-blues dept.

"gewg_" writes with news of a story appearing in The Register: Viagra makes it HARD for malaria, bug-boffins discover:

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has been buying Viagra, in a good cause: it seems to help beat one of the common malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum.

The mechanism is even analogous to Viagra's better-known effect: it makes infected red blood cells stiffer, which marks them down to be cleaned out by the spleen.

The full journal article is available at PLOS Pathogens: cAMP-Signalling Regulates Gametocyte-Infected Erythrocyte Deformability Required for Malaria Parasite Transmission.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by TimothyMoore on Friday June 05 2015, @07:31AM

    by TimothyMoore (5412) on Friday June 05 2015, @07:31AM (#192407)

    Silagra 100mg [safeformens.com] is another pill used to treat ED. It is not much popular but preform the same to treat the ED