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Title    News About Pfizer's Most Popular Pill
Date    Saturday May 23 2015, @08:52PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the giving-malaria-the-blues dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/05/23/0110208

"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.

Links
  1. "Viagra makes it HARD for malaria, bug-boffins discover" - http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/18/viagra_makes_it_hard_for_malaria_bugboffins_discover/
  2. "cAMP-Signalling Regulates Gametocyte-Infected Erythrocyte Deformability Required for Malaria Parasite Transmission" - http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1004815
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