Volume 23, No 7, Jul 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 23 Issue 7, July 2013: 872-873

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Does dietary salt induce autoimmunity?

Andrew L Croxford¹, Ari Waisman² and Burkhard Becher¹

¹Institute of experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
²Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany Correspondence: Burkhard Becher(becher@immunology.uzh.ch)

Two recent publications suggest that dietary salt may polarize TH17 cells and therefore increase the risk of developing autoimmune disease. Where low salt diets can readily be tested for their therapeutic effects in autoimmune disease, more work is needed to connect dietary salts with the development of immunopathology.

10.1038/cr.2013.65

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