Key immune substance linked to asthma, study finds
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have linked a master molecule of the immune system, gamma-interferon, to the pathology of asthma, in a study of mice. This somewhat surprising finding the key immune molecule has often been assumed to steer the immune system in a different direction from the cluster of allergic disorders to which asthma belongs could lead to new treatments for the disease.