drz
09-07-2012, 04:37 AM
The last Vasculitis newsletter tells of study from Australia where II-5 cytokine is injected into body and results in increasing the good regulating cells and not attacking the effector cells. The allows the body's immune system to better regulate its response to disease without going into destructive overdrive. This is a new approach to treatment and has been helpful with Guillain-Barre syndrome in rats as well as multiple sclerosis, nephritis and overcoming organ transplantation rejection. The other alternative of boosting T-cell production to combat illnesses such as celiac disease and MS is to swallow helminths parasites which sounds rather unappealing. Human trials might start in next few years. University of New South Wales May 30 2012 Science Daily. Maybe this will be the start of finding a way to fix our broken immune systems like Al often dreamed about.