Starving inflammatory immune cells slows damage caused by multiple sclerosis
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
In a paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports, a pair of researchers at the University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences report that inhibiting the ability of immune cells to use fatty acids as fuel measurably slows disease progression in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS).