HTTP:: Specific White Blood Cells Act to Fix Damaged Lungs
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After about 50 mouse studies, experts at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have managed to finally map the complete set of actions that a certain set of white blood cells takes when dealing with badly damaged lungs. According to the investigations, these regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, are the main triggers that set the pace of the recovery, depending on the seriousness of the injury or damage. The only thing experts knew for sure about them was that they played a crucial role in keeping the immune system away from healthy tissues, e! Science News reports. “Our study results are the critical first leads in finding treatments for a clinical condition that until now has had none, despite its high mortality,†JHU pulmonologist Landon King, M.D., who has also been the senior investigator of the new study, explains. “When a patient develops acute lung injury, we want the critical care medicine team to be able to do more than just stabilize the patient on a ventil!
ator,†he says. King is also the JHU School of Medicine director of pulmonary and critical care medicine. Details of the research appear in the September 21st online issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The new study is groundbreaking in many ways, and could open up entirely new fields of drug synthesi...
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