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...

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