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MS: Linking Hormones, Diet, Blood Flow, EBV, Myelin Sheath

Last post by frodo « Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:05 am
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by vesta » Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:03 am

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I closed my previous blog titled « Birth Control Pill Increases MS Risk » November 6, 2017 thus :

I am writing this MSCureEnigmas site to encourage...

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Thanks for the update!!! And I will take a look at your site as soon as I can.

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Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:05 am
Even more voices against the autoimmune model

Last post by frodo « Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:35 am

by frodo » Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:35 am

Currently there is much more evidence against the autoimmune model than against any other, including the more controversial ones, like CCSVI or gut...

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Wed Nov 22, 2017 6:35 am
MS is more neurodegenerative than autoimmune

Last post by Zyklon « Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:45 am
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by frodo » Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:53 am

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NAWM or normal appearing white matter is MRI-invisible damage that appears before the MS lesions and autoimmunity.

Global loss of myelin water over...

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Greetings. To be honest I don't believe in CCSVI. I want to see more evidence about it.

Kind regards, Z

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Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:45 am
More about EBV involvement

Last post by frodo « Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:58 am

by frodo » Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:58 am

This study points to a low response against EBV in MS patients. Maybe the immune system in MS is unable to control EBV properly.

Low intrathecal...

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Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:58 am
review about body fluid biomarkers

Last post by frodo « Fri Nov 03, 2017 10:44 am

by frodo » Fri Nov 03, 2017 10:44 am

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Fluid biomarkers for microglial activation and axonal injury in multiple sclerosis

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Although it is clear that the immune system...

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Last post by frodo
Fri Nov 03, 2017 10:44 am
more evidence against the autoimmune model

Last post by frodo « Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:34 am
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by frodo » Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:28 pm

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This article is a PDF that you can download:

Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis: How Much Space is Left for Autoimmunity?

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Multiple...

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More voices against the autoimmune model:

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The inflammatory demyelinating lesions that are characteristic of multiple sclerosis...

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Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:34 am
Neurofilament light chains (NFL)

Last post by frodo « Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:35 pm

by frodo » Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:35 pm

In the search of a body fluid biomarker for MS, currently the main candidate are neurofilament light chains (NFL). They are short pieces of neurons...

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Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:35 pm
MS is not a single disease. It is four at least.

Last post by frodo « Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:10 pm
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by frodo » Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:37 pm

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MS was defined in the XIX century as the presence of scars in the brain. They didn't know what was causing them, and they still don't know. There is...

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But a bigger question is; can they cure any of them?

That's just a secondary question. The main questions are, what the hell are they? why they do...

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Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:10 pm
miRNA dysregulation as the source of the disease

Last post by frodo « Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:28 pm

by frodo » Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:28 pm

Micro-RNA ( miRNA ) has been proposed as a biomarker of axon degeneration, but some authors have proposed that they could be the source of the...

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Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:28 pm
About the lesion's evolution

Last post by frodo « Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:29 am
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by frodo » Thu May 25, 2017 12:12 am

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The first damage that appears in white matter are the so-called normal appearing white matter (NAWM) areas. Myelin at these areas is already damaged,...

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About the early events in the demyelination process, it seems that axonal pathology is independent from inflammation:

In vivo characterization of...

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Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:29 am
MS also affects peripheral nervous system

Last post by frodo « Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:23 am

by frodo » Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:23 am

MRN - Magnetic resonance neurography - shows damage in peripheral nerves of MS patients. This is not explained by any of the currently accepted...

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Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:23 am
New association of vein anomalies and MS found

Last post by frodo « Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:47 am

by frodo » Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:47 am

New association of vein anomalies and MS found on Sept. 2017. I remark the date because this has been reported already before several times

I would...

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Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:47 am
Large Noncoding RNA in blood

Last post by frodo « Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:30 pm

by frodo » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:30 pm

Expression Analysis of Long Non-coding RNAs in the Blood of Multiple Sclerosis Patients.

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic...

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Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:30 pm
Study identifies biomarker for the onset & progression of MS

Last post by frodo « Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:25 pm
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by MSUK » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:04 am

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A team of researchers have identified Opioid Growth Factor (OGF) as a novel biomarker for the onset and progression of multiple sclerosis (MS)...Read...

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A team of researchers have identified Opioid Growth Factor (OGF) as a novel biomarker for the onset and progression of multiple sclerosis (MS)...Read...

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Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:25 pm
A review about mechanisms in PPMS

Last post by frodo « Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:24 pm

by frodo » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:24 pm

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Unlike relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, there are very few therapeutic options for patients with progressive forms of multiple...

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Last post by frodo
Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:24 pm
more evidence about EBV: microRNAs

Last post by frodo « Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:34 am

by frodo » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:34 am

Maybe closer to an explanation for MS, and also closer to a blood test.

The identification of up-regulated ebv-miR-BHRF1-2-5p targeting MALT1 and...

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Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:34 am
change to SPMS could be prevented

Last post by frodo « Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:39 pm

by frodo » Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:39 pm

MIF and D-DT are potential disease severity modifiers in male MS subjects

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Little is known about mechanisms that drive the...

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Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:39 pm
Biomarkers for response to therapies

Last post by frodo « Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:48 am
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by frodo » Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:45 am

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Having several disease modifying drugs available, is interesting to know what kind of response is expected for each one of the different drugs in a...

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And here there is a review summarising the complete situation as of 2015

Conclusions:

A lack of understanding of the cause of MS, as well as...

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Last post by frodo
Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:48 am
microRNA miR-155 dysregulation

Last post by frodo « Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:38 am

by frodo » Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:38 am

Authors of the article say that is not only a biomarker, but also a target for intervention. I put it here in biomarkers just to be conservative....

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Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:38 am
Biomarkers for diagnosis thread

Last post by frodo « Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:31 am
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by frodo » Sun Jul 09, 2017 4:55 am

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Hi all,

Biomarkers can be used not only as a diagnosis, but also as a window to the underlying pathology. Therefore I start this thread about...

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Optical tomography recommended as biomarker

Retinal layer segmentation in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Source:...

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Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:31 am
A review of PET in MS

Last post by frodo « Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:51 am

by frodo » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:51 am

Positron emision tomography (PET) can show things that cannot be seen under MRI. Specially interesting is that microglia, some inmune cells of the...

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Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:51 am
An ancestral retroviral protein identified in diabetes

Last post by frodo « Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:06 am

by frodo » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:06 am

I post this here knowing that MS and diabetes have probably very little in common, but given that HERVs are associated to MS, we could have a similar...

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Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:06 am
How MS Progresses

Last post by TeresaL « Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:35 pm
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by vesta » Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:23 am

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HOW MS PROGRESSES

The French Neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, practicing at the Parisian la Pitié-Salpetrière hospital, first described Multiple...

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CCSVI helped me but improvements didn't last long, Dr Siskin out in stents that clotted within 6mos. I was taking plavix also.

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Last post by TeresaL
Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:35 pm
Nitric oxide may induce mitochondrial dysfunction of oligode

Last post by Scott1 « Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:09 am
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by frodo » Tue Aug 22, 2017 1:14 am

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Insights in pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis: nitric oxide may induce mitochondrial dysfunction of oligodendrocytes.

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Demyelinating...

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Hi,

Be careful about what you read into this. The 1998 Nobel prize was awarded to three men for their work on Nitric Oxide. see It wasn't described...

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Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:09 am
Biomarkers for response to therapy thread

Last post by frodo « Wed Aug 16, 2017 12:13 am

by frodo » Wed Aug 16, 2017 12:13 am

Besides the biomarkers for diagnosis there are also biomarkers that can predict the response to an specific therapy. They can also shed some light...

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Last post by frodo
Wed Aug 16, 2017 12:13 am
PPMS specific pathology thread

Last post by frodo « Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:23 pm
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by frodo » Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:49 am

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For some things PPMS is different to normal MS. This is just the last one reported.

The relationship between cortical lesions and periventricular...

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This is a long text about PPMS pathogenesis. It could be interesting.

Pathology and Pathogenesis of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: Concepts and...

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Last post by frodo
Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:23 pm
MS is due to a bacteria that produce adenosylcobalamin

Last post by frodo « Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:12 pm

by frodo » Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:12 pm

This is a novel hypothesis for MS pathogenesis that the authors have called multiple sclerosis due to adenosylcobalamin deficiency . I really do not...

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Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:12 pm
what we know about MS as of 2017

Last post by frodo « Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:22 pm

by frodo » Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:22 pm

This is a copy of another post of Leonard. I copy and paste here to have all the references in this subforum

Source:

The causes and very...

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Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:22 pm
Molecular mimicry?

Last post by frodo « Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:15 am

by frodo » Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:15 am

A new report that brings molecular mimicry again into the research field. In this case, they report that two proteins of the EBV virus could trigger...

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Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:15 am
Genetic link to vitamin D & MS

Last post by NHE « Sun Aug 06, 2017 2:13 am
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by tzootsi » Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:48 am

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Haven't had a chance to decipher this yet, but looks very interesting.

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Thanks for posting this. Here's the abstract.

Low-Frequency Synonymous Coding Variation in CYP2R1 Has Large Effects on Vitamin D Levels and Risk of...

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Sun Aug 06, 2017 2:13 am
CSF from MS patients is toxic to neurons

Last post by frodo « Sat Aug 05, 2017 4:23 am

by frodo » Sat Aug 05, 2017 4:23 am

There are several reports about toxicity of CSF in MS patients. This is just the last one.

Bioenergetic Failure in Rat Oligodendrocyte Progenitor...

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Sat Aug 05, 2017 4:23 am
Ineffective immune control of EBV may cause exacerbation

Last post by frodo « Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:48 am

by frodo » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:48 am

Ineffective immune control of EBV may cause exacerbation . That is the conclusion of this study, in which they say that normal CD8+ T-cells are able...

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Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:48 am
EBV-infected B-cells? We will have an answer soon

Last post by frodo « Mon Jul 31, 2017 2:21 am
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by frodo » Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:44 am

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This post is about a clinical trial, but I post it here before it will yield the answer to the new MS model.

Some time ago, MS was considered an...

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Would another viral infection causes the EBV to re-activate,?
I read that lack of oxygen could cause EBV to re-activate. Couldn't poor blood...

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Mon Jul 31, 2017 2:21 am
MS and EBV relapse together

Last post by frodo « Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:03 am
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by frodo » Sun Apr 16, 2017 4:13 am

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This article is 4 years old but I found it interesting

Multiple Sclerosis and EBV: Relapsing Together
The activity of the Epstein-Barr virus in the...

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Also interesting:

The beneficial effects of vitamin D3 on reducing antibody titers against Epstein-Barr virus in multiple sclerosis patients ....

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Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:03 am
MS B-cells secretory products are toxic

Last post by frodo « Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:13 am
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by frodo » Sun May 14, 2017 9:16 am

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B-cells again pointed as the culprit in MS.

Of course this does not exclude any other research way (clamidia? ccsvi? iron? guts?). All can be...

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And there is another similar report:

Secretory products of multiple sclerosis B cells are cytotoxic to oligodendroglia in vitro

Abstract

B...

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Last post by frodo
Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:13 am
Neonatal vitamin D status and risk of multiple sclerosis

Last post by frodo « Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:53 am
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by NHE » Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:50 am

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Neonatal vitamin D status and risk of multiple sclerosis: A population-based case-control study.
Neurology. 2017 Jan 3;88(1):44-51.

OBJECTIVE:...

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Very interesting. Thank you.

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Last post by frodo
Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:53 am
new medical entity set appart from MS

Last post by frodo « Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:28 pm

by frodo » Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:28 pm

First it was Neuromyelitis Optica . It was set appart from MS when anti-AQP4 antibodies were found to be specific of this kind of disease.

Then it...

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Last post by frodo
Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:28 pm
Lipid metabolism linked to MS

Last post by frodo « Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:35 am
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by frodo » Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:50 pm

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The use of vibrational spectroscopy to study the pathogenesis multiple sclerosis and similar neurological conditions

They say more or less that...

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Related to this, anti-acne medications has an effect

Acne drug slows MS development

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Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:35 am
New model of MS: Response against infected B-Cells

Last post by frodo « Wed Jun 21, 2017 6:37 am
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by frodo » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:15 am

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A recent failure with Tysabri has shed some light into MS pathogenesis. It seems that is not EBV itself, but some B-cells infected by EBV, the cause...

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More evidence about the EBV-infected b-cells theory:

Half of progressive MS patients treated with Epstein-Barr virus sensitised T-cells see symptom...

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Wed Jun 21, 2017 6:37 am
Scientists discover possible trigger for MS

Last post by MSUK « Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:22 am

by MSUK » Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:22 am

Scientists in Israel have discovered an abnormality in neurons’ protective membrane that may allow the body’s immune system to attack itself by...

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Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:22 am
Cross-talk between human glial cells and B cells

Last post by frodo « Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:19 am

by frodo » Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:19 am

Cross-talk between human glial cells and B cells help propagation of CNS-compartmentalized in progressive MS

Astrocytes supported MS B cell...

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Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:19 am
new biomarkers of disease progression linked to cholesterol

Last post by frodo « Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:06 am
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by frodo » Wed May 17, 2017 11:34 pm

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It seems that the Simvastatin connection is under research by the groups that investigate pathogenesis, and they have found that some...

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More about biomarkers

Source:

... We developed in a training cohort ... two biomarker-based classifiers that differentiate:

1. MS from CNS...

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Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:06 am
specific auto-antibodies in blood

Last post by frodo « Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:03 am
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by frodo » Mon May 22, 2017 9:58 am

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Researchers have found different auto-antibodies markers in blood in SPMS and RRMS. These different biomarkers could shed light into the...

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More about blood tests. Morphogenetic proteins are required to grow stem cells into their final form, in this case, neurons and oligodendrocytes....

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Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:03 am
Rab32 connects ER stress to mitochondrial defects in MS

Last post by violin « Tue May 09, 2017 9:38 pm
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by NHE » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:25 am

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Rab32 connects ER stress to mitochondrial defects in multiple sclerosis.
J Neuroinflammation. 2017 Jan 23;14(1):19.

BACKGROUND: Endoplasmic...

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You are lots more scientific than I. All I know is my doctor told me a lot about hyperbaric oxygen chambers helping regenerate mitochondrial DNA in...

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Tue May 09, 2017 9:38 pm
mitochondrial Rab32 involved

Last post by frodo « Tue May 09, 2017 8:36 am

by frodo » Tue May 09, 2017 8:36 am

Rab32 is a protein involved in mitochondrial stress. It has been found to be present in MS lesions and now it has been found to be specific of MS...

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Tue May 09, 2017 8:36 am
Die sogenannten Körner erschienen etwas körnig

Last post by frodo « Mon May 08, 2017 12:51 am

by frodo » Mon May 08, 2017 12:51 am

... which translated to English means The so called nuclei seemed more grainy . This was the conclusion of the German pathologyst Heinrich Müller...

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Mon May 08, 2017 12:51 am
Antibodies produced by B-cells attack spinal cord samples

Last post by frodo « Sun May 07, 2017 10:44 pm

by frodo » Sun May 07, 2017 10:44 pm

Some years ago it was found that the CSF of MS patients was able to produce a MS-like condition in mice. This other article maybe explains how it is...

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Sun May 07, 2017 10:44 pm
MS: A Functional Disorder

Last post by vesta « Sun May 07, 2017 9:01 am
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by vesta » Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:41 am

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MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: A FUNCTIONAL DISORDER

If I had known that Multiple Sclerosis is essentially a problem of fluid circulation (blood,...

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Hi Vesta

Congratulations for your brilliant and clear explanation about this complex desease. I agree with most of your points of view. You have...

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Sun May 07, 2017 9:01 am
whatever Rituxan does, it does it outside the CNS

Last post by Scott1 « Sat Apr 29, 2017 10:03 pm
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by frodo » Sat Apr 29, 2017 3:36 am

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Whatever Rituxan does, it does it outside the CNS. PET imaging shows that Rituxan never enters the CNS at all. This leaves open the question about...

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Hi,

That raises the intriguing idea of EBV infection. Latent EBV resides in the B cell so if you ablate to B cell you remove the EBV.

He mentions...

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Sat Apr 29, 2017 10:03 pm
meningeal inflammation in early multiple sclerosis

Last post by Scott1 « Sun Apr 23, 2017 4:18 am
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by frodo » Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:14 am

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Whatever MS is, meningeal inflammation (and therefore gray matter damage) is present since the beginning.

Source:

Results:

A para-sulcal CL was...

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Hi,
It may be too selective to just focus on meninges. They are just a part of a broader group of connective tissue called fascia. Varieties of...

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Sun Apr 23, 2017 4:18 am

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