Study adds to efforts to find more effective anti-inflammatory drugs
Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown function for a protein that could add to the expanding arsenal of potential new drugs for battling inflammation and tissue fibrosis in a number of disease processes. Scientists report that a protein called TRPC6 mediates a molecular pathway critical to the body's repair processes following various forms of injury caused by disease.