New strategies against bird flu

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 04/16/2008 - 23:00

Multiple lethal pathogens such as H5N1 avian flu trigger acute lung injury with a high death rate. Scares of an epidemic have led to an increasing interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms that lead to this condition.

A team of scientists led by Josef Penninger and Yumiko Imai of IMBA, Vienna, have identified oxidative stress and innate immunity as a common pathway that controls the severity of ARDS.

The journal Cell reports this week.

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