Sentences with phrase «decrease lung injury»

By triggering a process called autophagy — in which cells literally engulf their own insides — researchers from Drexel University and Yale University were able to decrease lung injury in mice that were exposed to high concentrations of oxygen.

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To find out whether increasing cell self - destruction in the lungs could actually decrease cell death — and ultimately prevent lung injury — Bhandari and his research team targeted a regulator protein called RPTOR, which when inhibited, is responsible for inducing autophagy.

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