Plant peptide could prevent onset of multiple sclerosis

[MSUK]

Together with his team and the research group led by Gernot Schabbauer, international partners from Australia, Germany and Sweden, Christian Gruber, Chief Researcher at the Center for Physiology and Pharmacology has demonstrated in an animal model that, following treatment with a specially synthesized plant peptide (cyclotide), there is no further progression of the usual clinical signs of multiple sclerosis. Gruber: "The one-off oral administration of the active agent brought about a great improvement in symptoms. There were no further attacks of the disease. This could slow down the course of the disease in general..." - Read more - http://www.ms-uk.org/mar18

[CureOrBust]

I think the following may be the full article.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl ... ne.0068016

[MStranslate]

I think the following may be the full article.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl ... ne.0068016

This was a previous article that I think may have led to the current one looking at the use of the cyclotide as an oral treatment for MS. The most recent one was published in PNAS. If it helps understand it, I've written a summary of this article which can be found here:

http://www.mstranslate.com.au/plant-pep ... sclerosis/

Enjoy!

Thanks,

Brett (MS researcher, science communicator and co-founder of MStranslate)