Pinning Down A Cause Of Disease In A Model Of Psoriasis
Sunday, June 8, 2008 - 21:28
in Health & Medicine
Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that affects approximately 2--3% of individuals in the Western world. New data have indicated that a subset of immune cells known as Tregs (which act to prevent other immune cells from responding inappropriately) are dysfunctional in a mouse model of psoriasis and that this dysfunction contributes substantially to the development of disease.