Cause of multiple sclerosis: Researchers test autoimmune hypothesis

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Cause of multiple sclerosis: Researchers test autoimmune hypothesis

A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable to trigger an autoimmune disease similar to the multiple sclerosis in the mouse, the model animal which helps to explain how human diseases work. This is what a group of researchers from the Catholic University of Rome, led by Francesco Ria (Institute of General Pathology) and Giovanni Delogu (Institute of Microbiology), have explained for the first time in a recently published article on the Journal of Immunology.

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Tags: Allergy and Immunology, Infectious Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Autoimmune Disease, Disease and Condition, Pathology