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EBV and MS - new study started
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:18 am
by kratos
Charcot Project 2 has started!
Barts and The London Neuroimmunology Group has started a new study about the link between EBV virus and Multiple Sclerosis.
They want to test if Famciclovir is able to get rid of EBV activity.
Here you can read more about this fascinating subject.
http://multiple-sclerosis-research.blog ... ect-2.html
They are crowfunding this study, so if you want you can contribute.
Regards
Kratos
Re: EBV and MS - new study started
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 2:34 pm
by PointsNorth
I contributed 10 pounds.
PN
Re: EBV and MS - new study started
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:25 pm
by kratos
PointsNorth wrote:I contributed 10 pounds.
PN
Well done!
I have contributed as well, because I feel that if we want to search the cause of MS we simply can't wait an answer from pharma.
We just know the answer from pharma: lifelong immune system depletion.
I paste the direct link of Crowdacure for everyone that would like to contribute a little to this important research; there you will find a video from the researchers explaining the link between EBV and MS.
https://www.crowdacure.com/projects/res ... -sclerosis
I hope a lot of people will join this effort!
Kratos
Re: EBV and MS - new study started
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 3:18 am
by CureOrBust
kratos wrote:Charcot Project 2 has started!
Barts and The London Neuroimmunology Group has started a new study about the link between EBV virus and Multiple Sclerosis
Weren't they suppose to publish the results from their first trial? I haven't seen them anywhere?
Re: EBV and MS - new study started
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:43 pm
by kratos
CureOrBust wrote:kratos wrote:Charcot Project 2 has started!
Barts and The London Neuroimmunology Group has started a new study about the link between EBV virus and Multiple Sclerosis
Weren't they suppose to publish the results from their first trial? I haven't seen them anywhere?
Yes, you are right; I am still waiting the results as well.
In the Barts blog they say should all be published soon.
Anyway, Charcot2 is starting and hopefully will unravel something new about the real cause of MS.
Here some words from the blog Researchers about the link between EBV and MS:
Here is some more information on the topic. Did you know that if you develop infectious mononucleosis (IM) due to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection you are more than twice as likely to develop MS than if you acquire EBV without any symptoms (asymptomatic EBV infection)? Even more impressive is that people who don't get infected with EBV are protected from getting MS. In addition, if you have been tested and shown to be EBV negative and then go onto develop MS you alway get infected with EBV prior to developing MS. These epidemiological insights are the main pillars supporting EBV as the likely cause of MS. What we don't know is how EBV causes MS at a molecular level.
Re: EBV and MS - new study started
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 8:40 pm
by CureOrBust
You obviously have been reading their blog. Do you know if they have made any refrerences to the arictle from this post?
News: Certain herpes viruses can infect human neurons
Re: EBV and MS - new study started
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:47 am
by kratos
Yes they have talking about the same argument, here you go:
http://multiple-sclerosis-research.blog ... nfect.html
although I think they commented another research (same argument)
Gammaherpesvirus Infection of Human Neuronal Cells
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26628726
I hope this
crowdfunding can gain momentum.....only 94 people have contributed sofar.....
Re: EBV and MS - new study started
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 5:15 am
by CureOrBust
kratos wrote:although I think they commented another research (same argument)
I think its the same research. Both are attributed to the author "Hem Chandra Jha" and "Jha HC". One is the PubMed reference and the other is from a news publication.