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New drug could reverse MS damage

Post by MSUK » Wed Apr 15, 2015 12:28 am

A new experimental drug, anti-LINGO-1, has been found to repair myelin and so radically improving nerve signalling, reports The Daily Telegraph.

The scientists studied patients who had optic neuritis – damage of the optic nerve.

The results showed 53 per cent of people on the drug saw their nerve signalling restored to normal or nearly normal while on average most saw signalling between the retina and the brain improve by 41 per cent..... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/emergingtherapies
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