Irish team behind emphysema breakthrough
Irish researchers have made an important breakthrough which gives new hope to sufferers of hereditary emphysema – one of the most common fatal inherited lung conditions in this country – and may be applicable to other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Researchers from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Beaumont hospital have shown how the protein Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) plays an important role in controlling inflammation from white blood cells.
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Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:13 pm