Dampening inflammation with aspirin
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 16:32
in Health & Medicine
Upon microbe clearance from the body or completion of wound healing, protective inflammatory responses must be dampened down. One set of molecules known to play a role in resolving the inflammatory response is the E-series resolvins. While analyzing the blood of several individuals to investigate the pathway by which E-series resolvins are generated, researchers have identified a new 18S E-series resolvin, which could be generated from aspirin.