HealthDay - Acne Drug Prevents Tissue Damage From Emphysema
Researchers say they may be able to prevent the tissue damage that lung diseases, such as emphysema, cause by treating the patient with doxycycline, an antibiotic commonly used to treat acne.
which is also used to treat common ailments such as sinusitis and urinary tract infections — appears to counter low levels of VEGF, a protein that helps to maintain healthy lung tissue but is in unusually low levels in people with emphysema.
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“The images that we have of the lungs of mice that have been treated with doxycycline are startlingly different to those that we didn’t treat,” Ellen C. Breen, from the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, said in …
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