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Researchers have discovered that abscisic acid, a natural plant hormone with known beneficial properties for the treatment of disease, has anti-inflammatory effects in the lungs as well as in the gut.
The discovery by researchers in the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) was build on previous work with the botanical abscisic acida.
"While the immune effects of abscisic acid are well understood in the gut, less was known about its effects in the respiratory tract. We've shown definitively that not only does abscisic acid ameliorate disease activity and lung inflammatory pathology, it also aids recovery and survival in influenza-infected mice," said Raquel Hontecillas, Ph.D., study leader, assistant professor of immunology at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, and co-director of NIMML.
Influenza accounts for anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths per year in the United States alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...to-healing-influenza/articleshow/15043158.cms
The discovery by researchers in the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) was build on previous work with the botanical abscisic acida.
"While the immune effects of abscisic acid are well understood in the gut, less was known about its effects in the respiratory tract. We've shown definitively that not only does abscisic acid ameliorate disease activity and lung inflammatory pathology, it also aids recovery and survival in influenza-infected mice," said Raquel Hontecillas, Ph.D., study leader, assistant professor of immunology at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, and co-director of NIMML.
Influenza accounts for anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths per year in the United States alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...to-healing-influenza/articleshow/15043158.cms