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They came across a compound with the same structure as the rest of the toxins, but it seemed to have the opposite effect. While brevetoxin is a lung irritant when inhaled, Baden says brevenal actually restored normal lung function.
Dr. Bill Abraham at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York noticed that this compound "has a lot of the effects that someone would like to see in the reverse of cystic fibrosis," Baden explained. Researchers at University of North Carolina are developing brevenal in conjunction with the pharmaceutical company AAIPharma, Inc. and hope to begin clinical FDA trials in about a year.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313983,00.html
They came across a compound with the same structure as the rest of the toxins, but it seemed to have the opposite effect. While brevetoxin is a lung irritant when inhaled, Baden says brevenal actually restored normal lung function.
Dr. Bill Abraham at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York noticed that this compound "has a lot of the effects that someone would like to see in the reverse of cystic fibrosis," Baden explained. Researchers at University of North Carolina are developing brevenal in conjunction with the pharmaceutical company AAIPharma, Inc. and hope to begin clinical FDA trials in about a year.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313983,00.html