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Found a way to restore the liver
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American scientists the Medical School of San Diego, University of California found that the development of liver scarring can be stopped if the allocation of one block vital protein produced in the body as a means of protection.
Use of alcohol or hepatitis often lead to fibrosis, in which the connective tissue thickening and they appear cicatrices s. Excessive expansion of the connective tissue - this cirrhosis, which leads to a very serious breach of work liver.
So far, in those cases doctors could do little: either struggled with the virus, which has become a cause of dysfunction or recommended that the patient dramatically the way of life and sit on the diet.
After a series of experiments on mice with fibrosis, American doctors were able to stop the formation of hardened tissue in the liver.
Part experimental mice received special drugs that blocked the body's ability to produce protein RSK.
The experiment showed that those mice, whose bodies are not able to provide protein stayed fibrosis, and the other continued to grow.
Dr. Martin Back, directed the study, believes that the method could provide a much stronger effect.
"Our latest figures show that we can turn back the disease," - said Dr. Back.
The study, published in the journal PLoS Online may also prove useful for the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis, and burns. According to the BBC, the British fund research into liver diseases believe that the California researchers are encouraging, although there is still a lot of work.
"It is clear that the study is in its early stages and is currently testing will take place only when the development will be able to stop the disease in humans" - stated by the fund.
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