A four-year, $3.4 million grant to investigate molecular mechanisms and therapeutic treatments for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been awarded to UTHealth Houston researchers by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Tag: Acute Lung Injury
Multiomics reveal human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells improving acute lung injury via the lung-gut axis
BACKGROUNDAcute lung injury (ALI) and its final severe stage, acute respiratory distress syndrome, are associated with high morbidity and mortality rates in patients due to the lack of effective specific treatments. Gut microbiota homeostas
Training immune cells to remove ‘trash’ helps resolve lung inflammation
Acute lung injury occurs when our lung’s immune system response becomes hyperactivated and causes inflammation to continue unchecked. In fact, many deaths from COVID-19 were from acute lung injury.
Aging Limits Lung Cells’ Ability to Regenerate after Injury
Article title: Aging impairs alveolar epithelial type II cell function in acute lung injury Authors: Tolga Yazicioglu, Christian Mühlfeld, Chiara Autilio, Cheng-Kai Huang, Christian Bär, Oliver Dittrich-Breiholz, Thomas Thum, Jesús Pérez-Gil, Andreas Schmiedl, Christina Brandenberger From the authors: “We show that…
Nitric Oxide May Slow Progression of COVID-19
Researchers at the George Washington University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine published a review in the journal Nitric Oxide suggesting that nitric oxide treatment can be pivotal in the fight against SARS-CoV-2.