{"id":178027,"date":"2023-12-11T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/harnessing-the-power-of-a-parasite-that-can-stop-pain"},"modified":"2023-12-11T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:24:14","slug":"harnessing-the-power-of-a-parasite-that-can-stop-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/harnessing-the-power-of-a-parasite-that-can-stop-pain","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing the Power of a Parasite that can Stop Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harnessing-the-power-of-a-parasite-that-can-stop-pain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have begun to figure out why the disfiguring skin lesions caused by cutaneous leishmaniasis don\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed leishmaniasis lesions on mouse skin to detect metabolic signaling pathways that differed from uninfected mice. Results suggested the parasites that cause the disease change pain perception\u2014presumably as a way to delay treatment and promote their own survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one knows why these lesions are painless\u2014but it has been thought that the parasite somehow manipulates the host physiological system,\u201d said Abhay Satoskar, senior author of the study and professor of pathology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have begun to figure out why the disfiguring skin lesions caused by cutaneous leishmaniasis don\u2019t hurt. Researchers analyzed leishmaniasis lesions on mouse skin to detect metabolic signaling pathways that differed from uninfected mice. Results suggested the parasites that cause the disease change pain perception\u2014presumably as a way to delay treatment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178027","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}