A team of UCLA scientists has found that the pathogen that causes leprosy has a remarkable ability to avoid the human immune system by inhibiting the antimicrobial responses important to our defenses.Vit D is outsmarted by a bacterium.
In one of the first laboratory studies of its kind, researchers discovered that the leprosy pathogen Mycobacterium leprae was able to reduce and evade immune activity that is dependent on vitamin D, a natural hormone that plays an essential role in the body's fight against infections.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Stealthy Leprosy Pathogen Evades Critical Vitamin D-Dependent Immune Response
More bad news for the cure du jour.
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