Neurons collected from brain lesions in MS patients were found to accumulate new genetic mutations faster than healthy nerve ...

A generation ago, a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis often meant a steady decline in quality of life. The autoimmune disease, which affects nearly a million people in the U.S., causes the immune system ...

Early research on multiple sclerosis showed that immune cells invade ... CD8+ T cells attack alpha-synuclein, contributing to neuron loss. Similarly, TH17 helper T cells, which produce interleukin ...

Ocrelizumab significantly reduced the number and volume of cortical lesions associated with multiple sclerosis at 120 weeks, ...

High-dose vitamin D supplementation reduces disease activity in clinically isolated syndrome typical of MS, results of a ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that ... However, it's still unclear how this process causes neuron damage. As described in a study published in Nature Communications, Oregon ...

Each year, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), millions of people in the U.S. are affected by spinal cord ...

They could be used to measure or modulate a neuron’s electrical and metabolic ... helping to address neuronal degradation in diseases like multiple sclerosis. The devices are made from thin ...

Multiple models have been proposed for the mechanism by which mutant superoxide dismutase 1 induces motor neuron death and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A combination of cell biology and genetics ...