A newly-unveiled discovery, which has been four years in the making, has the potential to change the way we look at autoimmune diseases and understand how and why immune cells begin to attack different tissues in the body. “Once your body’s tolerance for its own tissues is lost, the chain reaction is like a runaway...
Tag: <span>Autoimmune Disease</span>
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Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms
It takes a hookworm four to six weeks to travel through the human body and reach the gut, where it latches onto the small intestine and sucks blood to sustain itself. That doesn’t just sound gross; it also sounds like a situation that would outrage the immune system into action. But if you take an endoscope and film these...
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Trigger for autoimmune disease identified
Researchers Kira Rubtsova, Philippa Marrack and Anatoly Rubtsov have shown that the transcription factor T-bet inside B cells drives the appearance of Age-associated B Cells (ABCs) and the development of autoimmune disease. Researchers at National Jewish Health have identified a trigger for autoimmune diseases such as lupus, Crohn’s disease and multiple sclerosis. The findings,...
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Autoimmune disease: Could modified red blood cells lead to new treatments?
New treatments that prevent and alleviate autoimmune diseases may come from using red blood cells to carry disease-specific proteins that retrain the immune system. So concludes a study that shows such an approach works in mice with multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes. The researchers say that their method of using red blood cells to...
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The Secret To Treating Autoimmune Disease May Lie In The Gut
An estimated 50 million Americans ― that’s 20 percent of the general population ― suffer from autoimmune diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, and many experts say that number is rising at an alarming rate. Autoimmunity occurs when the immune system begins attacking the body’s healthy tissue as if it were an outside invader, leading to chronic...