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Parasitic worms could hold the key to treating immune system diseases – here’s what we know

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par Eilis Dowd, Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Galway
Sienna Stucke, PhD Candidate in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Galway

For millions of years, parasitic worms have had to survive inside animals without being destroyed by their hosts’ immune systems. To do that, they have evolved remarkably effective ways of dampening the immune response.

Scientists are now trying to understand those tricks and work out whether they could be turned into medicines for diseases resulting from overactive immune systems.

Parasitic worms, also known as helminths, include roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms and flukes. Many live and feed in the intestines of their hosts, including humans. They still infect up to

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