04 August 2025
Power of Peroxide
Organs such as our intestines and lungs are at risk to damage from the outside world. A lining of epithelial cells aims to protect them. When breached, researchers have found that repair is promoted by bursts of hydrogen peroxide H2O2 from a protein called DUOX2 impacting the cells inner scaffold to catalyse cell connections (like the tube formation seen here) and migration
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Maurice O’Mara, Suisheng Zhang & Ulla G. Knaus
- Conway Institute, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, July 2025
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