A clarifiacation - when you say immune system is activated, I would assume BBB is compromised (probably a natural response) in the above cases too.cheerleader wrote:sbr487 wrote: The immune system is also activated in stroke and dementia, and white matter lesions and oligoclonal banding are seen in neurovascular diseases that are created by hypoxic/ischemic insult or plasmic deposition in brain tissue. Why did doctors assume that MS is autoimmune? Stroke isn't autoimmune....maybe "autoimmune" just means we have no idea why.
cheer
This also brings up another point made by a neuro (was it in NYT?) that MS culprit is some gene (that regulates immune system, I must add). That would still not explain BBB compromise.