How the Tick Immune System Works

preview_player
Показать описание
Tick bites cause about 329,000 cases of Lyme Disease per year! To prevent this vector-borne disease, we need to know more about how ticks acquire, maintain, and transmit disease.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine are studying the tick immune system to give us some answers.

-Discussion on the tick immune system is from:

2) McClure Carroll et al. “p47 licenses activation of the Immune Deficiency Pathway in the tick Ixodes scapularis.” PNAS (2018).

**This video was commissioned and paid for by the Pedra Lab at the University of Maryland School of Medicine**

SimpleBiologist provides a quick description of the newest biology research.

Host: Kate Bredbenner

Music:
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Рекомендации по теме
Комментарии
Автор

good work please help us find the cure.

lelamoore
Автор

I am actually immune to ticks, they instantly die after they bite me. Also mosquitos do not bite me at all, however i do not know if these attributes are related.

davidhoggen