{"id":139749,"date":"2022-05-23T23:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T04:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/targeting-toxin-release-to-treat-lethal-bacterial-infection"},"modified":"2022-05-23T23:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T04:02:47","slug":"targeting-toxin-release-to-treat-lethal-bacterial-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/targeting-toxin-release-to-treat-lethal-bacterial-infection","title":{"rendered":"Targeting Toxin Release To Treat Lethal Bacterial Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/targeting-toxin-release-to-treat-lethal-bacterial-infection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered that <i>Clostridium septicum<\/i> rapidly kills cells by releasing a toxin that punches holes in the surface of the cell. This induces an immune response that can lead to sepsis and shock. The team is now exploring whether it\u2019s possible to develop drugs to neutralize the toxin to treat the infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that Clostridium septicum rapidly kills cells by releasing a toxin that punches holes in the surface of the cell. This induces an immune response that can lead to sepsis and shock. The team is now exploring whether it\u2019s possible to develop drugs to neutralize the toxin to treat the infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}