Protein is potential new treatment target for adult pulmonary hypertension
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
A protein critical to development appears to have a grave impact on lungs exposed to smoking and air pollution, researchers report. Blocking that protein, called calpain, in the lungs may prove an effective way to avoid narrow, scarred blood vessels and pulmonary hypertension, researchers said.