Discovery Expected to Shift Research Direction in Lupus and Asthma

Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

Newfound details of the immune system suggest a role for never-before-considered drug classes in the treatment of allergic and autoimmune diseases, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham study published online today in Nature Immunology. The results advance the current understanding of the way the body's initial, vague reaction to any invading organism expands into a precise and massive counterattack.

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