Mouse Study Suggests Diet and Gut Bacteria Work Together to Regulate Immune Responses : National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Mouse Study Suggests Diet and Gut Bacteria Work Together to Regulate Immune Responses

October 22, 2015

A team from Germany reports that short-chain fatty acids promote the development of immune cells that can regulate the attack on the brain and spinal cord in an MS-like disease in mice, but only in the presence of gut bacteria. These findings lend evidence to the potential importance of diet in MS and opens new possibilities for developing diet-based treatments to help manage MS.

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Read the publication in the journal Immunity (.pdf)

This team recently presented results on one type of diet at the large MS meeting, ECTRIMS. Read more under “Approaches to Diet”

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Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are leading to better understanding and moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide.

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