World-Renowned Scientists to Lead Immunology Course
...NSERM U550, Paris, France Friday, June 6 10:15 am to 10:45 am Salon E, Fourth Floor, Boston Marriott Copley Place Thematic Symposia: Pulmonary cxcr2 Regulates VCam-I Dependent, Antigen-induced Recruitment of Mast Cell Progenitors to Lung, presented by K. Frank Austen, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital...Researchers Identify Lung Failure Therapy Receptor
...athing. ARDS is caused by pneumonia, septic shock, trauma, or inhaling toxic chemicals. In the current research, it was found that the receptor called cxcr2 attracted neutrophils or the white blood cells, which is the first step in the development of ARDS. “We can’t say yet that if you target this receptor...Roskamp Institute Identifies New Class of Drugs to Treat Alzheimer's Disease
...n various laboratory models and, by using drugs that specifically block the cxcr2 receptor, we are able to show that a decrease in production of amyloid can ... a new door for therapeutic intervention, potentially leading to the use of cxcr2 blocking agents as a way to treat both the inflammation and the amyloid pro...