Dynamic duo helps to heal irradiated mice
By LL | November 23rd, 2011 | Category: Nature, Recent | No Comments »An antibiotic and a protein can work together to fight radiation-induced infections better than either can manage alone. Doctors already use antibiotics to treat radiation sickness. But the addition of a protein from the immune system — bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI), which acts against poisons called endotoxins — improves the survival rate of irradiated mice, according [...]







