study conducted by Northwestern Medicine and Mayo Clinic has found that stem cell transplants can reverse a debilitating autoimmune diseases. Photo courtesy Northwestern Now News A study conducted by Northwestern Medicine and Mayo Clinic has found that...
A seldom-studied class of immune cells may reduce the friendly fire that drives autoimmune disease, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stimulating these protective cells could lead to new therapies...
was published in the journal PNAS. Immune CD4 positive T-cells, known as T helper cells, play an important role in the autoimmune reaction against myelin (the protective coat surrounding neurons), the hallmark of MS. These cells are characterized by...
Childhood viral infections that reach the brain may prime it for the development of autoimmune conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, later in life — this is what a recent study that scientists conducted in mice seems to suggest. Could viral...
Like Emrich, many people with MS develop other seemingly unrelated health conditions such as cancer or diabetes, another autoimmune disease such as psoriasis or RA, or a potentially temporary issue like headaches or anemia. “More than 50 percent of...
to create a kind of immune cell atlas for the brain. They also showed how these cells promote the development of the autoimmune disease MS. The researchers report on their study in the January issue of the journal Science, published on 25 January 2019....
indicator of chronic inflammation in the brain. Lymphocyte cuffs in the brain are telltale signs of viral infections or autoimmune disorders. But thepattern Anderson observed did not match any previously documented infection or autoimmune disorder of...
Many treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) are targeted at reducing inflammation, thereby slowing progression of the autoimmune disease. An anti-inflammatory diet also may slow disease progression, as well as enhance the positive effects of...
new clinical trials, ultimately aiming to discover and verify stratification biomarkers to improve patient management. Autoimmune, inflammatory and allergic diseases are common chronic diseases that significantly affect the wellbeing of millions of...
disease, the finding sets the stage for the technology -- a nanoparticle containing the antigentriggering the allergy or autoimmune disease -- to treat a host of other diseases and allergies including multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, peanut allergy,...
and would like to comment further, please do! It’s been known for quite some time that multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases are driven by angry helper T cells (T lymphocytes) that somehow mistake your own tissues for an invader that...
classified as a rare subtype of multiple sclerosis (MS) but now considered a separate disease. Unlike MS and most other autoimmune disease, neuromyelitis optica has a biological marker, AQP4, that correlates with disease activity. After the stem cell...
Several years ago, Stefan Weitz was diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease: Multiple Sclerosis. He faced the prospect of being confined to a wheelchair and early death—neither of which jived with running a global software team on four...
salt concentration (salinity) and temperature. These transitions, according to the study, render the body vulnerable to autoimmune attacks that can lead to MS. The research was led by Prof. Roy Beck of TAU's School of Physics and Astronomy and conducted...
influx of calcium ions. In Germany alone, more than 200,000 patients suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is an autoimmune condition and one of the most common inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system. The degree of the patient´s...
a leading off-the-shelf, allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy company developing novel treatments for patients with cancer, autoimmune and viral diseases, today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2019 and recent business highlights. “I am...
the nervous tissue, and the challenge now is to move the research forward in humans. FULL STORY Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that attacks and destroys a structure known as the "myelin sheath," whose integrity is indispensable for the...
immediately. I overheard his assistant quietly consider potential diagnoses: “multiple sclerosis, lupus, another autoimmunedisease?” I closed my eyes and imagined myself on the sort of carnival ride where you stick to the wall as you spin round and...
sclerosis, have been published in the eminent journal Nature Communications. Multiple sclerosis is the most common autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. Estimates suggest that more than 200,000 people are affected by the disease in Germany...
vaccination to be a risk factor for MS," the authors conclude in a recent Neurology paper on the study. An unpredictable autoimmune disease MS is a long term disease that damages the central nervous system (CNS) by destroying the insulation around nerve...