Of the three types of MS, PPMS is considered the rarest, affecting 10% of people living with MS. As with other forms of MS, ...

New data suggest the frequency of damage and repair processes correlates with disease severity and disability in multiple ...

Brain and spinal cord lesions are characteristic of multiple sclerosis. We wanted to understand which cells are part of the lesions and their dynamics over time.” Petra Kukanja, Study Co-First Author, ...

MS is characterized in part by your immune system’s attack on myelin. The nerves are vulnerable to damage as the myelin degrades. Scarring, or lesions, can appear on the brain, spinal cord ...

How can we use magnetic fields in MS? Because of the way magnetic fields ... Are they in the brain or are they in the spinal cord? Where are these lesions? And you can monitor, then, the ...

In vivo tracking of stem cells in brain & spinal cord lesions MRI detection as well as histological analysis demonstrated that grafted adult as well as embryonic stem cells labeled with SPIO ...

B cells normally can’t cross from your blood into your brain or spinal cord. If you have MS, some B cells enter your brain and spinal cord and attack the myelin sheath that protects your nerves.

Scientists will use $1 million from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to explore ways to stop astrocytes from damaging ...

The term “sclerosis” refers to the scarring caused by the disease, which manifests as lesions or plaques in the brain or spinal cord. There is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis.

Several studies have demonstrated that SPIO-labeled stem cells migrate into a brain or spinal cord lesion after transplantation; MRI detection was confirmed by histological analysis with iron ...