Enzyme and vitamin define the yin and yang of asthma

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 07:56 in Health & Medicine

The allergen breathed in by a person with asthma triggers a proteinase or enzyme called MMP7 that activates a cascade of events to prompt an allergic reaction, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online in the journal Nature Immunology...

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