Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system that occurs when the immune system attacks the ...

For children genetically predisposed to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), exposure to cigarette smoke in the family home could ...

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease in which immune cells attack and destroy the protective myelin sheaths that surround nerve fibres, leading to neurological disturbances. Evidence for ...

The Carl Zeiss Foundation is contributing EUR 6 million to a research project on the regeneration of the nervous system at ...

In addition, numbness may be due to a disease or medications that cause demyelination (destruction of the protective coating of nerves, called the myelin sheath). Less commonly, thumb numbness may be ...

Oligodendrocytes, the myelin-producing cells of the central nervous system (CNS), play a crucial role in facilitating rapid ... a method that utilizes the differential refractive indices of compact ...

Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, ...

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) is a recently identified autoimmune disorder characterised by inflammatory demyelination of the central nervous system in ...

Nearly three million people around the world have multiple sclerosis. Scientists think they have now uncovered a mystery cause of this incurable disease. It is a virus that nearly every one of us ...

Loss or damage of the myelin layer – as is the case for multiple sclerosis, a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system – can cause serious disability.