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How Anti-inflammatory Molecules may Help Treat Glaucoma

A cellular pump that moves drugs like antibiotics out of E. coli bacteria has been found to have the potential to bring the antibiotics in as well. A research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Biochemistry have made a groundbreaking finding that opens new lines of research into combating bacteria. The discovery could rewrite almost 50 years of thinking about how these types of transporters function in the cell.

How Anti-inflammatory Molecules may Help Treat Glaucoma

How Anti-inflammatory Molecules may Help Treat Glaucoma

Lipoxins, anti-inflammatory molecules secreted from astrocytes may provide new treatment for glaucoma by stopping the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells.

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