Causes leading cause symptoms of high blood pressure is the blood pressure by acting on the arterial wall causes the blood vessels are damaged, and cause dangerous diseases such as heart attack and stroke, are now being regarded as the silent killer. With current conventional treatment is prescription medication to lifestyle changes. However, Japanese scientists recently studied a vaccine used to immunize against this dangerous disease.
Itinerary search
Medical science world has started research to identify and develop some kind of vaccine to prevent hypertension from the mid 80s of last century. This still being the scientists continue to study "because although the vaccine has been tightly controlled for 6 consecutive months when given to mice, but not effective in humans know how long and reaction side or not, "Dr. Dr. Ernesto L.Shiffrin, specialized research vessels and blood pressure at the General Hospital Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish and at McGill University in Montreal, Canada said.
In 2008, in a study published in the journal The Lancet, the researchers also found a vaccine to prevent hypertension, but only for research results at modest levels. It is a peptide vaccine consists of a sequence of amino acids is thought to help the body capable of inhibiting the hormone angiotensin II, causing the blood vessels agent contract and prevents the circulation of blood vessels. However, the vaccine has been tested only a few months since the World Health Organization (WHO) has decided not to continue to develop further by humanitarian reasons if it was the vaccine in humans.
Reduce costs for poor patients
Professor, Dr. Hironori Nakagami at Osaka University, Japan, and colleagues are getting closer to the prospect of a vaccine vaccine for patients with hypertension. This soon to succeed also means they will bring access to methods to prevent and treat low cost to poor people worldwide. Vaccine Dr. Nakagami and his colleagues that functions as a hormone angiotensin II converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, non stick and prevent this hormone. According to Japanese scientists, this vaccine will penetrate the DNA of cells in the body into the wall is capable of helping the body produce antibodies to reduce the pathogens as spasms blood vessels, atherosclerosis and the risk of blood clots forming. So what kind of "DNA vaccines" have a role as a defensive barrier against blood vessels.
Although scientists currently only control mice preventive time within 6 months, but experts said this vaccine could very safe because it has no significant side effects in time Tests on mice. After the study is successful, the Japanese scientists hope to conduct human trials right in this country or in certain countries. "If this vaccine successfully tested on humans, it is a global revolution in the treatment of high blood pressure for poor communities in all continents, erasing worries of expenses disease treatment this death.