Discovery may lead to powerful new therapy for asthma
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 07:00
in Health & Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found that a single enzyme is apparently critical to most allergen-provoked asthma attacks - and that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can be significantly reduced by compounds that have already undergone clinical trials as treatments for complications of diabetes...