Friday, December 10, 2021

Melatonin exacerbates asthma discovers research group

 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937537

 

 News Release 10-Dec-2021
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Tohoku University

 

Patients with asthma often experience a worsening of asthmatic symptoms at night in so-called "nocturnal asthma." According to reports, more than 50% of asthma deaths occur at night, exposing a link between nocturnal asthma symptoms and asthma deaths. Although some have proposed several triggers that explain the pathogenesis of nocturnal asthma, the precise mechanisms regulating this asthma phenotype remain obscure.

Now, a research group led by Kentaro Mizuta from Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry has discovered that melatonin, a sleep hormone, worsens asthma.

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