Anthrax
New anthrax study findings have been reported by investigators at Van Andel Research Institute
Published in FDA Law Weekly, March 22nd, 2007
Investigators publish new data in the report "MKK signaling and vascularization. In 1998, George Vande Woude's lab discovered that anthrax lethal factor (LF), the principal virulence component of anthrax toxin, was a zinc-metalloprotease that cleaved and inactivated mitogen-activated protein kinase kinases (MKK). It was perhaps not surprising, given the known roles of MKK1 and 2 in cell proliferation, that LF was subsequently found to dramatically inhibit tumor growth in vivo," scientists in the United States report.
"What was not anticipated, however, was that the tumors treated with LF would have a substantially reduced vascular content. This intriguing result was one...
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