Turn On / Turn Off the Immune system

[Marco]

University of Maryland
Researchers report a new way to turn off the harmful immune attack that occurs during autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), while keeping healthy functions of the immune system intact.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0915174034.htm

[palmtree]

Thank you, Marco. A little hope. I am on Tysabri. It helps a lot to keep the auto-immune cells from crossing the blood brain barrier but it leaves us so vulnerable to infection and the disease is still raging in the rest of the body.

This approach makes a lot of sense. Of course a lot of us MS people just roll our eyes when an idea is tested in mice. But you never know when one of these will lead to a treatment that can actually be effective in humans.

Great research!