Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

Model developed in study will pave way for more discovery about important but mysterious process Ben Emery, Ph.D., and ...

“Demyelination is a core mechanism of neurodegeneration that has been overlooked in Alzheimer's disease, despite the evidence that it’s a critical element of the disease's pathology ... lead to the ...

This inflammation damages myelin sheaths — the insulation that encases ... to evaluate other immune cell types that are involved in MS pathology." Still, the researchers hope that understanding ...

Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology & Immunology and a BJC Investigator at ... with the dominant protein being a ...

Researchers have found a process by which the brain guards against attack by the immune system. In mice with multiple sclerosis, such 'guardian' proteins that train the immune system were drastically ...

Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology & Immunology and a BJC ... with the dominant protein being a component of myelin sheath, the protective cover on neurons that becomes damaged in MS ...

Scientists have discovered that the brain produces "guardian peptides" that maintain its immune balance, potentially offering new treatments for neuroinflammatory diseases like MS and Alzheimer's. The ...

“Demyelination is a core mechanism of neurodegeneration that has been overlooked in Alzheimer’s disease, despite the evidence that it’s a critical element of the disease’s pathology ... to the ...