Researchers examine role of inflammatory mechanisms in a healing heart

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 07:01 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found that an inflammatory mechanism known as inflammasome may lead to more damage in the heart following injury such as a heart attack, pointing researchers toward developing more targeted strategies to block the inflammatory mechanisms involved.

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