Targeting therapeutic genes to the lungs offers the potential to manage serious lung diseases that do not respond to other forms of treatment and to use the lungs as metabolic factories to produce therapeutic proteins for ...
Jan 25, 2017
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By triggering a process called autophagy—in which cells literally engulf their own insides —researchers from Drexel University and Yale University were able to decrease lung injury in mice that were exposed to high concentrations ...
Jul 19, 2016
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Researchers are developing a new drug to treat life-threatening lung damage and breathing problems in people with severe infections like pneumonia, those undergoing certain cancer treatments and premature infants with underdeveloped, ...
Apr 19, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—Influenza is highly communicable, and often causes acute lung injury and respiratory distress, particularly in aged people. Therapeutic options after infection with the virus are limited, and health organizations ...
New research from an investigative team at the University of Cincinnati (UC) has identified biomarkers and potential therapeutic approaches that may hold the key to treating pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM), a rare ...
Nov 11, 2015
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Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and The Saban Research Institute of CHLA have created a dynamic functional mouse model for lung injury repair, a tool that will help scientists explain the origins of lung disease ...
Jul 28, 2015
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Our lungs are permanently exposed to harmful environmental factors that can damage or even destroy their cells. In a specific regenerative process these injured cells must be replaced as soon as possible. In collaboration ...
Jul 14, 2015
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Electronic cigarette (e-cig) use has now surpassed traditional cigarette use among middle and high school students, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This leaves many parents, public health officials ...
May 26, 2015
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Lung transplant patients who receive lungs from heavy drinkers are nearly nine times more likely to experience a life-threatening complication called primary graft dysfunction, a Loyola University Medical Center study has ...
Jan 20, 2015
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Few people would guess that some of the most detrimental damage from a traumatic brain injury is to the lungs, but transplant specialists are keenly aware of this phenomenon. Indiana University research published Sept. 3 ...
Sep 3, 2014
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