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Study results from State University of New York update understanding of multiple sclerosis
Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 15th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal International Immunopharmacology, "Statins as hypocholesterolimic drugs have recently shown to have ant-inflammatory properties and thus are being assessed for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). Dietary phytosterols such as beta-sitosterol (SIT) are also hypocholesterolemic compounds and from preliminary studies they appear to have also anti-inflammatory properties."
"In this communication, we report On Studies to investigate the immunomodulatory effects of SIT on proliferation and release of key cytokines from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of MS patients. In PBMC of MS patients, 16 mc M SIT...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-04-15)
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