HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: A. MYCOBACTERIA COEXIST WITH RED BLOOD CELLS IN CAPILLARY VESSELS AND IN GRANULOMAS, EXIST WITHIN MACROPHAGES AS WELL. B. MYCOBACTERIA ACTIVELY PROLIFERATE WHEN THEY CAN ADHERE DIRECTLY TO RED BLOOD CELLS (SQUARE). CREDIT: YUKIKO NISHIUCHI, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY Mycobacteria are a group of pathogenic bacteria that cause diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis in...
The researchers discovered that people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a protein in their lungs that leaks a small molecule into their bloodstream that restricts their breathing instead of relaxing their airways. The findings will help clinicians diagnose and determine the severity of chronic lung diseases and make bronchodilators more effective....
by University of California – San Diego Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs. The treatment not only slowed tumor growth in the lungs of mice with either...
by Wiley Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were each associated with increased risk for developing rheumatoid arthritis in a study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology. Inflamed airways may contribute to the development of rheumatoid arthritis, but the role of chronic airway diseases in the development of rheumatoid arthritis is unclear. In this study...
For the first time, researchers have developed a way to coax pluripotent stem cells into a specific type of mature lung cell called “alveolar epithelial type II cells” (AEC2s) and to correct a mutant gene whose dysfunction in these cells is known to cause respiratory distress in infants. The findings, which appear in Cell Stem Cell,...
