MS breakthrough: Vitamin D directly terminates production of disease-causing protein
Mechanism suggests a potential new path toward pharmaceutical treatment of MS, as well as therapies for other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, eczema and psoriasis.
For years scientists have noted an association between levels of vitamin D in a person’s body and the person’s ability to resist or minimize the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) but didn’t understood the mechanism involved. Until now.
New breakthrough research by a collaborative team at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and Stanford indicates that vitamin D directly terminates the production of a disease-causing protein.
As the investigators outline in their report, published in the September issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology (“1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 ameliorates Th17 autoimmunity via transcriptional modulation of interleukin-17A” )... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/1334
MS breakthrough: Vitamin D directly terminates production
MS breakthrough: Vitamin D directly terminates production
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If this discovery relies solely on what they found Vitamin D doing for the MS mouse, I wouldn't get too excited. Nothing that has worked in that poor mouse has translated into success with humans. But wouldn't it be nice if this was the first exception!
Harry
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