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April 10, 1995 7:00 AM UTC

ICOS and university collaborators reported the cloning and expression of the human gene for platelet activating factor acetylhydrolase, an enzyme that breaks down platelet activating factor, an inflammatory mediator.

As published in Nature, the recombinant enzyme was active in two animal models of acute inflammation. ...