RESEARCH - Important control mechanism behind autoimmune diseases discovered

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Important Control Mechanism Behind Autoimmune Diseases Discovered

MedicalNewsToday.com

Article Date: 05 May 2010 - 4:00 PDT

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet

have discovered a new control mechanism in our immune system. The

discovery is of potential significance to the treatment of serious

diseases such as MS (multiple sclerosis), rheumatoid arthritis, and

SLE (Systemic lupus erythematosus).

" Now that we've started to understand the regulatory mechanisms

involved in these autoimmune diseases, we are hopeful that new

treatments can be found, " says Mikael Karlsson, associate professor at

the Department of Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Solna, and one

of the team behind the study now published in the highly reputed

periodical, The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

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