The ability to counteract inflammation in the lungs by utilising the combined anti-inflammatory and reparative properties of MSCs could potentially reduce the inflammatory response in individuals with chronic lung disease whilst also
restoring lung function in these patients.
WASHINGTON — Paralyzed rats can breathe a sigh of relief: A new treatment can
restore lung function, even a year and a half after a spinal cord injury that takes it away.
Not exact matches
The virus was able to shuttle the correct gene into
lung tissue in the laboratory and
restore its
function.
«Future efforts to preserve or
restore aging - and disease - related loss of
lung function will need to take such tissue mechanical and cellular phenotypic changes into account,» the researchers wrote.