Lessons from oligodendrocyte biology on promoting repair in multiple sclerosis.
Department of Pathology,
University of Cambridge,
Tennis Court Road, Cambridge,
United Kingdom CB2 1QP,
New insights into the pathology of multiple sclerosis: towards a unified concept?
Department of Neuropathology,
University Hospital Georg-August-University,
Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075,
Gottingen, Germany,
Understanding the disease processes underlying multiple sclerosis is crucial to optimise treatment and to develop new therapeutic entities. Our understanding has been dominated by the inflammatory model… read more »
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Magnetic resonance imaging techniques to define and monitor tissue damage and repair in multiple sclerosis.
Neuroimaging Research Unit, Department of Neurology,
Scientific Institute and University Ospedale San Raffaele,
Via Olgettina, 60, 20132,
Milan, Italy,
Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) has greatly improved our ability to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) and… read more »
Inflammatory/demyelinating central nervous system involvement in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF): coincidence or association?
Istanbul University,
Istanbul Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Neurology (Noroloji),
Capa 34390,
Istanbul, Turkey
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:
Could Estriol Be the Elixir for MS?
LOS ANGELES, CA — March 23, 2007 — It has long been common
knowledge that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis experience a
sharp drop in the disease’s symptoms during the course of their
pregnancy.
Some years back, Rhonda Voskuhl, MD, director of UCLA’s Multiple
Sclerosis Program, and her colleagues discovered the cause. They
found that a female sex hormone called estriol, which is produced
during pregnancy, was responsible for the suppression… read more »
Deep gray matter and fatigue in MS: a T1 relaxation time study.
Division of Clinical Neurology,
B Floor, Medical School,
University Hospital NHS Trust,
Queen’s Medical Centre,
Nottingham, UK.
Fatigue in multiple sclerosis (MS) occurs commonly, sometimes as the earliest symptom. Some MS patients consider fatigue to be their… read more »
Inhibiting Blood to Save the Brain
Description
Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have identified a fibrin-
derived peptide that inhibits this specific inflammation process in
mouse models of MS, reducing MS symptoms.
Newswise — A fibrous protein called fibrinogen, found in circulating
blood and important in blood clotting, can promote multiple sclerosis
(MS) when it leaks from the blood into the brain, triggering
inflammation that leads to MS-related nerve damage. Researchers at
the University of California, San… read more »
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis is caused when T cells, components of the immune system that normally lead the attack against foreign invaders of the body, instead target nerves in the spinal cord and brain creating lesions in myelin, the protective sheath around nerve axons. In MS, activation of T cells triggers the release of inflammatory cytokines that lead to the destruction of the myelin protein layer. In the immune system, specific… read more »
