Cure Heart Disease, Vehicle Smoke

Vehicle Smoke

Smoke of motor vehicles is known to be one of the largest contributors to air pollution in urban environments due to the dangerous chemical substances contained in it. However, small amount of those hazardous chemicals can help cure heart disease. A research found that the monoxide carbon and nitric oxide contained in motor vehicle smoke could widen blood vessels when they were inhaled in small quantity, as reported by the Daily Mail, Friday, August 3rd, 2012.

A scientist in Britain, is making an experiment to cure heart disease with those toxic chemicals.Such experiment is being carried out by the chemists from St Andrews University in collaboration with a team led by prof Megson at the University of Highlands and Islands using pig heart.

Prof Megson uses these toxic chemicals in the amount of 1 million times smaller than the amount spent on car exhaust smoke. This very small amount is believed to have an effect on making the heart healthy when it is sent to a particular part of body.

This team of scientists from St Andrews will begin to create a material called 'metal-organic frameworks' to be filled with carbon monoxide, nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide. Within three months, the materials will be handed over to Prof Megson and the team will try to figure out how to inject molecules into the heart and measure its impact.

Metal-organic frameworks are designed to release gas into the body immediately when they touch the body fluids. Once tested in pigs, the experiment will then be addressed to patients with heart disease who are treated with stenting methods, namely inserting metal to widen a blocked artery.