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Article: Key Enzyme for Regulating Heart Attack Damage Found, Stanford Scientists Report.
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- September 11, 2008
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STANFORD, Calif. -- Marauding molecules cause the tissue damage that underlies heart attacks, sunburn, Alzheimer's and hangovers. But scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine say they may have found ways to combat the carnage after discovering an important cog in the body's molecular detoxification machinery.
The culprit molecules are oxygen byproducts called free radicals. These highly unstable molecules start chain reactions of cellular damage -- an escalating storm that ravages healthy tissue.
"We've found a totally new pathway for reducing the damage caused by free radicals, such as the damage that happens during a heart attack," said ...
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