... adampening of local inflammatory processes.Keywords: autoimmunity, cytokines, human, immune homeostasis, interleukin-17IntroductionRelapses and intermittent remission phases characterize the disease ... Itoh M, Takahashi T, Sakaguchi N, Kuniyasu Y, Shimizu J, OtsukaF, Sakaguchi S: Thymus and autoimmunity: production of CD25+CD4+ naturally anergic and suppressive T cells as akey function of ... sug-gest that the immune system is actively attempting to con-trol the inflammatory responses by recruiting regulatory Tcells. However, because of the complex cytokine environ-ment, possibly leading...