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Kobe University

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Kobe University neurologist CHIHARA Norio discovered how a known treatment against neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, an autoimmune disease, works: The treatment, which blinds immune cells to inflammatory signals, changes B cells’ function and induces them to become inflammation-suppressing “regulatory B cells” that secrete anti-inflammatory signals. The team also uncovered a molecular marker by which to identify these cells.

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