Multiple sclerosis, the prototype of demyelinating disease in man, is a relapsing-remitting or progressively disabling disease of unknown cause. The first pathological descriptions of the disease ...

Damage to myelin, the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibers, impairs the brain's ability to transmit signals efficiently ...

Acute demyelinating optic neuritis (referred to herein as optic neuritis) is one of the most common manifestations of MS and often occurs as a first demyelinating event. Patients present with loss ...

Continued demyelination in the CNS of people with MS can lead to chronic optic neuropathy (CON), a type of progressive visual impairment that may result in functional blindness. There are no drugs ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disorder of unknown etiology, possibly caused by a virus or is virus-triggered. Several viruses, including herpesviruses, were suggested as etiologic ...

If you have MS, your immune system attacks the myelin sheath that insulates your neurons. This is called demyelination. Demyelination makes it more difficult for electrical signals to travel ...

Demyelination in MS occurs when the immune system attacks and damages the myelin sheaths that insulate and nourish axons and nerve fibres in the central nervous system, leading to multifocal ...

Demyelination in MS occurs when the immune system attacks and damages the myelin sheaths that insulate and nourish axons and nerve fibers in the central nervous system, leading to multifocal ...

Demyelination in MS occurs when the immune system attacks and damages the myelin sheaths that insulate and nourish axons and nerve fibres in the central nervous system, leading to multifocal ...