Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Study Adds to Efforts to Find More Effective Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

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 from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report Sept. 27 in Developmental Cell that, a protein called TRPC6 mediates a molecular pathway critical to the body’s repair processes following various forms of injury caused by disease.

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