Promising New Path For Treating Traumas Discovered
Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
A discovery could help save lives threatened by traumatic injuries, severe infectious diseases and diabetes. Researchers have gained new knowledge about how proteins called histones can enter the bloodstream and kill the lining of blood vessels, resulting in uncontrolled internal bleeding and edema. Building on this work, the researchers have discovered an antibody that could counter this deadly process.