title: Does dietary salt induce autoimmunity?
abstract: 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.
authors: Institute of experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors: Andrew L
authors: AL
authors: Croxford
authors: Ari
authors: A
authors: Waisman
authors: Burkhard
authors: B
authors: Becher
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D020381:Interleukin-17 / Q000378:metabolism*; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology*; D058504:Th17 Cells / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins; D020381:Interleukin-17; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
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