New finding on treating pneumonia
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AMERICAN and Chinese scientists have found that inhibiting a protein involved in the accumulation of immune cells could enhance the killing of bacteria and reduces lung damage in mice with bacterial pneumonia.
The study, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, hinted at a new mechanism underlying how immune cells respond to lung infections, and may lead to new treatments for patients with pneumonia.
Luo Hongbo, associate professor of pathology at the Harvard Medical School, told Xinhua that a protein regulating the immune response to infections called IP6K-1 could improve clearance of bacteria while preventing tissue damage from excessive immune system activity.
Harvard researchers and their Chinese colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Tianjin developed a new treatment for bacterial pneumonia, which can be caused by bacteria that have become resistant to several common antibiotics.
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