Making old lungs look young again, with ibuprofen

Friday, October 3, 2014 - 00:02 in Health & Medicine

The lungs become more inflammatory with age, researchers say, and add that ibuprofen can lower that inflammation. Immune cells from old mouse lungs fought tuberculosis bacteria as effectively as cells from young mice after lung inflammation was reduced by ibuprofen.

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