Cooling the Fires of Inflammation
Posted on: Thursday, 6 March 2003, 06:00 CST
Cooling the Fires of Inflammation
Source: HealthScoutNews
A team of international scientists has found the key to blocking inflammation in mice, a finding that could lead to ways to prevent inflammation in humans.
The researchers, including biologists at the University of California, San Diego, found that eliminating the ability of white blood cells to respond to low oxygen levels prevents the development of inflammation in mice.
Their research, which appears in the March 7 issue of Cell, could offer information to assist in the development of new drugs to treat the painful and debilitating joint pain suffered by the 43 million Americans with arthritis.
The finding also may help lead to more effective cancer treatments. In the majority of cases, tumor development is associated with a pronounced inflammatory response.
More information about arthritis.
----
More news from the world's of science, space, and technology from RedNova
Related Articles
- Healing Arthritis Caused By Traumatic Injury
- Adolescents With Arthritis Need More Information When Moving to Adult Care
- Source MDx and Pfizer Collaborate in Translational Medicine
- Source MDx Announces Translational Molecular Medicine Collaboration With Pfizer
- Idera Pharmaceuticals Presents Preclinical Data of Toll-Like Receptor Antagonists in Rheumatoid Arthritis Models
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Impacts Millions of Americans but Remains Severely Underfunded
- New Report Examines Arthritis Drug Pipelines and Main Players
- Milk Thistle is Excellent for Liver
- Human Genome Sciences Reports Results of a Phase 2 Clinical Trial of LymphoStat-B(TM) in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Meeting report: Molecular mechanisms of inflammation: How leukocytes come, see and seize
 |
 |
User Comments (0)
RSS Feeds