AKB-4924 Experimental Drug Boosts Urinary Tract Ability To Fight Infections
Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
Urinary tract infections are common and wide-spread antibiotic resistance has led to calls for new ways to combat these infections. A recent paper details an experimental drug that stabilizes the human immune defense protein HIF-1α can protect human bladder cells and mice against a major UTI pathogen, and it might provide a therapeutic alternative or complement to antibiotic treatment. read more