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A new stem cell treatment has sent most of the MS patients who tried it into remission, halting the progression of the disease even several years afterwards.
The clinical study, led by Richard A. Nash of the Colorado Blood Cancer Institute in the US, involved 24 volunteer patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS). This form of the disease, which affects around 85 percent of MS patients around the world, is characterised by continued inflammatory attacks on layers of myelin - the membrane that insulates and protects the nerve fibres that make up our central nervous systems. This leads to patches or lesions in the membrane, and these interrupt the messages that are being transmitted along the nerves. Symptoms, which grow worse as the disease progresses, include a loss of motor function, fatigue, vertigo, memory loss and depression.
http://www.sciencealert.com/years-a...eatment-90-of-ms-patients-remain-in-remission
The clinical study, led by Richard A. Nash of the Colorado Blood Cancer Institute in the US, involved 24 volunteer patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS). This form of the disease, which affects around 85 percent of MS patients around the world, is characterised by continued inflammatory attacks on layers of myelin - the membrane that insulates and protects the nerve fibres that make up our central nervous systems. This leads to patches or lesions in the membrane, and these interrupt the messages that are being transmitted along the nerves. Symptoms, which grow worse as the disease progresses, include a loss of motor function, fatigue, vertigo, memory loss and depression.
http://www.sciencealert.com/years-a...eatment-90-of-ms-patients-remain-in-remission