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UCF researchers discover a new protein family implicated in inflammatory diseases

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, March 24th, 2008

A University of Central Florida research team has discovered a new protein family that may play an important role in preventing inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, some forms of cancer and even heart disease.

The findings that in the future may aid the body's defense system are published in the March 7 edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The research is partially funded by the National Institutes of Health.

"What we found is a family of proteins that control macrophage activation," researcher Mingui Fu said from a laboratory in the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences at UCF.

Macrophages are the body's...

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