MS study points to the gut microbiome as a potential source of the disease

MS study points to the gut microbiome as a potential source of the disease

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Fierce Biotech
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Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, so it’s only natural to think that inflammatory molecules found in the brain are responsible for the disorder. But a new study showed they may not be the primary culprit.

Two types of interleukin-17 (IL-17) molecules specifically generated in the gut regulate its microbiome and seem to be critical drivers of MS, a research team led by the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz in Germany has reported.