Putrid Compound Putrescine May Have a Sweet Side Gig as Atherosclerosis Treatment
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 10:40
in Health & Medicine
Putrescine, the compound responsible for perhaps the foulest odor in nature—the smell of decomposing flesh—may also be a remedy for atherosclerosis and other chronic inflammatory diseases, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. This unusual discovery stems from an investigation into the body’s process for removing dead cells using macrophages, a type of […]