A research team at Case Western Reserve University is pioneering a novel approach to MS treatment by targeting toxic ...

In MS, the immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin sheath, a protective layer around the nerve fibers. The condition causes inflammation, which can affect how the vagus nerve functions.

Those disruptions are due to inflammation and damage to the myelin sheath, the protective covering around nerve fibers, and they produce a wide range of symptoms. While there is no cure for MS ...

The Myelin Sheath: Shape, Size ... and perhaps the most well known, is multiple sclerosis (MS). This autoimmune neurological disorder is caused by the spreading of demyelinating CNS lesions ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

"I was dismissive, everybody has EBV so there's no way it can really cause MS." Now he's not only a fully convinced convert, he thinks he can join the dots between the virus and the myelin sheath.

No one knows exactly what causes MS, but like other autoimmune diseases, the body's immune system attacks its own cells by mistake... Damaging the protective lining, called the myelin sheath ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition in which the immune system attacks your myelin, the sheath that wraps around nerve cells. The symptoms of MS can vary widely, depending on the nerves that ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the myelin sheath, a protective ...