Παραδείγματα από το σώμα κειμένου για HOOKWORMS
1. Professor David Pritchard and his team at Nottingham University‘s School of Pharmacy administered different amounts of the hookworms to themselves to prove that it would be safe.
2. The eggs are excreted, but once the adult hookworms are in the gut they start to suck blood from the walls of the intestine.
3. Pritchard wants to see if the hookworms are influencing regulatory T–cells, which seem to keep the immune responses in check. ‘If we can work out how these cells are switched on, then the pharmaceutical industry could become involved.‘
4. If we think there‘s some indication of success, we would move on to asthma patients.‘ In the Seventies doctors first noticed that people infected with hookworms did not seem to suffer from allergies such as asthma, and scientists have reported that Crohn‘s disease also does not appear in countries where the infection is rife.