Scientists develop new compound for MS treatment
Scientists develop new compound for MS treatment
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have developed the first of a new class of highly selective compounds that effectively suppresses the severity of multiple sclerosis in animal models. The new compound could provide new and potentially more effective therapeutic approaches to multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases that affect patients worldwide.
The study appeared April 17, 2011, in an advance online edition of the journal Nature.
Current treatments for autoimmunity suppress the patient's entire immune system, leaving patients vulnerable to a range of adverse side effects. Because the new compound, known as SR1001, only blocks the actions of a specific cell type playing a significant role in autoimmunity, it appears to avoid many of the widespread side effects of current therapies.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/1100
MS-UK - http://www.ms-uk.org/
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