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Natural immune-control system may hold clue to treatment of autoimmune disease and tissue rejection, study finds
May 18, 2007
The immune system's ability to police itself may offer a new method of arresting the cells responsible for autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and for the rejection of transplanted organs and tissues, scientists at Dana-Farber report in a study in the May issue of the journal Immunity.
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Why doesn't the immune system attack the small intestine? New study provides unexpected answer
January 09, 2007
Answering one of the oldest questions in human physiology, researchers at Dana-Farber have discovered why the body's immune system — perpetually on guard against foreign microbes like bacteria — doesn't attack tissues in the small intestine that harbor millions of bacteria cells.
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