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  • Research could lead to way to halt deadly immune response (to physical trauma)

    02/09/2010 3:35:17 PM PST · by decimon · 20 replies · 318+ views
    Eastern Virginia Medical School ^ | Feb 9, 2010 | Unknown
    Scientists report further progress in study of complement reactionResearchers have teased out the molecular process that can shut down a marauding, often deadly immune response that kills thousands each year who suffer battlefield casualties, heart attacks, strokes, automobile accidents and oxygen deprivation, according to an article published in the January edition of Molecular Immunology. The article provides additional detail about the enormously complex biomechanics of a reaction first observed in the lab by Neel Krishna, Ph.D., and Kenji Cunnion, M.D., while conducting pediatric research at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) and Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk,...