Role of Vitamin D as an important promoter of T cell regulation in patients with Multiple sclerosis

The human immune system has a specialized sub-population of T-cells called the regulatory T-cells that play an important role in preventing us from autoimmune diseases like Multiple sclerosis. A recent clinical study by scientists show that Vitamin D has a positive role on the Treg cells and shift the Th1/Th2 balance towards Th2. In other words their findings suggest that Vitamin D could be an important promoter of T-cell regulation in vivo in patients with Multiple sclerosis and possible even other autoimmune diseases. Their findings appear in the recent issue of PLoS One 4(8): e6635. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006635