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Three Sentence Detective?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:33 am
by sunwest
Does anyone want to try their hand at "3 sentence detective" for how MS works?

1. cause
2. mechanism
3. cure or correction

Re: Three Sentence Detective?

Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:27 pm
by frodo
sunwest wrote:Does anyone want to try their hand at "3 sentence detective" for how MS works?

1. cause
2. mechanism
3. cure or correction
Just trying to be conservative I would say

cause: A combination of several factors, CCSVI among them.

mechanism: Unknown. The effects of stents in patients is inmediate, and therefore is not related to iron accumulation. Maybe there are several mechanisms working at the same time.

cure: I would say that to cure MS means to remove the scars of the brain. Therefore to cure CCSVI will not cure MS, but probably it will stop progression.