"These experiments reveal a key underlying mechanism for the loss of immune regulation in MS and likely other autoimmune diseases," said Hafler, who is also chair of Yale's Department of Neurology.

"These experiments reveal a key underlying mechanism for the loss of immune regulation in MS and likely other autoimmune diseases," said Hafler, who is also chair of Yale's Department of Neurology.

More than two decades ago, a research team in the lab of David Hafler, a Yale researcher who at the time was at Harvard, discovered a type of T cell in humans that suppresses the immune system; they ...

In an earlier study, Sumida and Hafler found that high levels of salt also contribute to the development of multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system.