Copd: What causes the lungs to lose their ability to heal?

Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the patients' lungs lose their ability to repair damages on their own. Scientists now have a new idea as to why this might be so.They blame the molecule Wnt5a for this problem.

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