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Study reveals new routes to potential treatments for chronic inflammatory conditions – News-Medical.Net

Inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma, COPD and, most recently, COVID-19, have proven difficult to treat.

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Inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma, COPD and, most recently, COVID-19, have proven difficult to treat. Current therapies reduce symptoms and do little to stop such diseases from continuing to damage the lungs. Much research into treating chronic inflammatory diseases has focused on blocking chemicals called cytokines, which trigger cascades of molecular events that fuel damaging inflammation.
Now, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that such cytokines…

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