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Researchers target a mouse’s own cells, rather than using antibiotics, to treat pneumonia

Added: 15.11.2021 12:20 | 286 views | 0 comments

Source: interestingengineering.com
Source: interestingengineering.com

Researchers have discovered a therapy that targets host cells rather than bacterial cells in treating bacterial pneumonia in rodents. The method involves white blood cells of the immune system called macrophages that eat bacteria, and a group of compounds that are naturally produced in mice and humans called epoxyeicosatrienoic acids or EETs.

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