Immune Mechanism Blocks Inflammation Generated by Oxidative Stress

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Potential therapeutic target for treating disorders like age-related macular degeneration

Conditions like atherosclerosis and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) – the most common cause of blindness among the elderly in western societies – are strongly linked to increased oxidative stress, the process in which proteins, lipids and DNA damaged by oxygen free radicals and related cellular waste accumulate, prompting an inflammatory response from the body’s innate immune system that results in chronic disease.

In the October 6, 2011 issue of Nature, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, as part of an international collaborative effort, identify a key protein… Read the full story from the UCSD Newsroom

Senior investigator Christoph J. Binder, MD, PhD, and coworkers report the results in the October 6, 2011, issue of Nature. Read the full text of the report

Dr. Binder is assistant professor of medicine at UC San Diego, principal investigator at the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and professor at the Medical University of Vienna.His Department of Medicine co-investigators are Joseph L. Witztum, MD, professor of medicine, and Karsten Hartvigsen, PhD, in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Sotirios Tsimikas, MD, professor of medicine and director of Vascular Medicine in the Division of Cardiology.

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