ScienceDaily: New Lead For Autoimmune Disease From Chinese Medicine

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New Lead For Autoimmune Disease From Chinese Medicine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604144328.htm

A major challenge in treating autoimmune disorders has been suppressing

inflammatory attacks on body tissues without generally suppressing immune

function. Now, a drug from Chinese medicine shows potential for easing these

disorders. In both mice and humans, it selectively inhibits development of Th17

cells, newly-recognized immune cells that were recently implicated in

inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, type 1

diabetes, eczema and psoriasis. It also eased a multiple-sclerosis-like

autoimmune disease in mice.

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