I just can't find it again. I was recently reading a piece explaining the types of MS. The types were not the usual ones (RRMS, etc...), it was more of a detail of what was happening inside.

Do you know what I am looking for? I can't find it!!!

Thanks - and I'm going nuts - yes I know.

Odduck wrote:
Raising BDNF is only one of many ways to help provide neuroprotection. Maintaining neuronal (via ion channels) sodium density is also a form of neuroprotection. (Keppra - i.e. levetiracetam - helps to provide neuroprotection, also.) Most of the AEDs have neuroprotection mechanisms of action. There are several neurotrophins that will help provide neuroprotection.

And can/should it be inexpensive? Absolutely! It's fairly easy to find substances/drugs that will assist with neuroprotection.

Neuroprotection is a ...

This might be a little OT, because it's regarding the flu vaccine. But I just saw this news release and thought I'd post it.

It just seems that lately, the FDA "appears" to have had a recent past practice of being a little "lax" shall we say?

You can't help but wonder what in the world is going on there at the FDA? Ya know? (I've highlighted a couple of statements in this news release ...

Hey, folks!

Just now, while posting to the "gray matter" thread that billf started, I ran across this website that I had never seen before. I haven't looked at it in depth yet. It isn't directed to MS, but it looks interesting. It appears to be something on the "philosophical" edge of life in general (mscaregiver may find this one interesting, also, if he hasn't happened upon it yet). Combines biology with neurology, etc.

Anyway, ...

i have some of the most bizarre symptoms, sometimes i feel like i'm crazy. does anyone here ever have a metallic taste in their mouth? i've never read it listed as a symptom of ms. the metallic taste began a year ago, when the trigeminal neuralgia started, exact same day. the taste is really one of the minor problems i realize, but it is just so odd i wanted to ask if anyone else experiences ...

For all the people who are still seeing MS as an autoimmune attack on myelin (modled by EAE in mice). Wake up!! Times are changing!!
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Copied this from the Antibiotics forum in case someone who might be interested misses it!
For anyone in the US who is of a mind to try treating their MS an an infection, a Stanford trained rheumatologist in Sacramento is willing to treat you, if you can make the trip to Sacramento and are willing to sign an informed consent form. He needs to see you at first, for obvious reasons, but thereafter can continue ...

There have been several disparaging and potentially libelous statements made against and about me lately, so I wanted to take a moment to clarify something - for the record, and to attempt to repair my potentially damaged reputation. Remember, I am NOT anonymous on this website.

None of the CRABs are classified as any type of "integrin antagonist" nor do their mechanism of action(s) involve totally blocking any of the integrins.

Antegren is an integrin ...

Dear all,

In mid-October 2004, the UK MS Society held a convention titled '2015: A World without MS?'. Researchers were going to make presentations on how this might happen. I could not attend, but waited for the presentations to be posted on the Society's website. Presentations were posted last week but covered the usual suspects - bladder and bowell problems, fatigue, spasticity, cognition etc, etc. I e-mailed the MS society to find out where the ...

This research looks potentially promising.


By impounding iron, FHC foils cell suicide, fuels inflammation
12 Nov 2004

A research team based at the University of Chicago may have found a way to manipulate cell suicide, also known as programmed cell death, a normal process that regulates cell number but that goes awry in chronic inflammatory disorders, cancer and other diseases.

In the 12 Nov. 2004 issue of the journal Cell, the scientists show that a ...