ARDS in Biological News

The challenges of avian influenza virus: Mechanism, epidemiology and control

...lly, the basic findings on nucleoprotein and polymerase will lead to some new drug leads. Clinically the human cases of H5N1 infection manifest some ards (acute respiratory distress syndrome) symptoms, similar to SARS infection. Therefore unraveling the molecular pathogenesis mechanism will help save li...

UIC researchers make promising finding in severe lung disease

...nd treatment of lung inflammation and injury. The research will be published in the journal Nature Immunology later this year and online June 29. ards is an often fatal complication of bacterial infections, blood transfusions, overdoses of some medications, or traumatic injury. According to the Natio...

New strategies against bird flu

...dy during which the lung becomes severely damaged. ards can be induced by various bacterial and viral infe...t are inhaled or gastric acid when aspirated. Once ards has developed, survival rates drop dramatically. A...fected with Anthrax and lung plague. Common to all ards samples was the massive amount of oxidation produc...

Key to out-of-control immune response in lung injury found

...blb-deficient mice than in normal mice. NF-kB is known to induce swelling of tissues. "There are already early-stage drug trials of treatments for ards targeting NF-kB," said Bachmaier. "This discovery has real clinical implications in the treatment and prevention of life-threatening lung failure." ...