Mechanism discovered for health benefit of green tea, new approach to autoimmune disease

Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

One of the beneficial compounds found in green tea has a powerful ability to increase the number of "regulatory T cells" that play a key role in immune function and suppression of autoimmune disease, according to new research in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.

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