A change in diet may protect against gut-bacteria dysfunction that leads to lupus in mice, University of Florida Health researchers have found.
In this video, Laurence M. Morel, Ph.D., a professor in the UF College of Medicine’s department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine; and Mansour Mohamadzadeh, Ph.D., a professor in the department of infectious diseases and immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, and the department of medicine, College of Medicine, how a diet low in the amino acid tryptophan has protective effects against lupus in preclinical models. The disease causes the immune system to attack normal, healthy tissue throughout the body.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9logCICJW0
