date:Mar 07, 2013
two together and went after this, Hafler said.
Researchers at Harvard and Yale and colleagues in Germany led by Dominik Mueller looked to see whether a high-salt diet could induce the destructive immune system response that is the hallmark of autoimmunity.
They found that adding salt to the diet of mice induced the production of Th17 cells and that mice genetically engineered to develop a form of MS had more severe disease than mice fed a normal mouse diet.
Hafler says the findings now need t