A century-old puzzle comes together: Scientists ID potential protein trigger in lung disease sarcoidosis
Monday, May 3, 2010 - 15:12
in Health & Medicine
Lung researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a possible protein trigger responsible for sarcoidosis, a potentially fatal inflammatory disease marked by tiny clumps of inflammatory cells that each year leave deep, grainy scars on the lungs, lymph nodes, skin and almost all major organs in hundreds of thousands of Americans.