An international scientific team has developed a new small molecule –VH298- which can provoke a hypoxic response controlled from outside the cells, according to a study recently published in the magazine Nature Communications with its first authors being the expert Carles Galdeano, Beatriu de Pinós researcher at the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB), and Julianty Frost, from the University of Dundee (United Kingdom).

This new study, led by the researcher Alessio Ciulli from the University of Dundee (United Kingdom), is a new therapeutic approach of great importance in the field of research on ischemic injury –produced by the lack of blood circulation- in the brain and heart, and also cardiovascular injuries and anaemia for chronic renal diseases or chemotherapy.

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