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"(Medical Xpress)\u2014The debilitating symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, appear to be increased by a lack of inflammation-reducing T cells, report scientists from the Methodist Neurological Institute in an upcoming print issue of The EMBO Molecular Medicine Journal.The researchers found that expression of the gene FoxP3\u2014which helps control the production of anti-inflammatory T cells\u2014was an indicator of disease progression in 80 percent of the patients they studied. Low FoxP3 levels were likely in patients whose ALS would develop rapidly, and vice versa."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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