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Post by John on Jul 16, 2014 5:50:34 GMT -5
ScienceDaily: Lung Disease News
Pulmonary inflammation successfully alleviated through targeted drug delivery
Posted: 14 Jul 2014 12:23 PM PDT
Pulmonary inflammation can cause shallow breathing and the lungs to become brittle in patients who experience multiple blood transfusions, sepsis, lung surgery and acute lung trauma. This complication can leave patients on ventilators, which can further traumatize the lungs, and often results in a mortality rate of 30 to 40 percent. Now, a multidisciplinary research team has found that when delivered by a microscopic transporter called a nanocarrier, steroids can access the hard-to-reach lung endothelial cells that need it most and are successful at preventing inflammation in mice. This could be good news in a few years for us !
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Post by jim on Jul 16, 2014 6:40:46 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing John. thumbsupde1
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Post by sandy07 on Jul 16, 2014 9:41:19 GMT -5
A "microscopic transporter"...a nanocarrier. I wonder what that might be. Some sort of blower?
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