MILAN — Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) does not appear to demonstrate a consistent and significant risk for demyelinating disease, according to a ...

An antibody appears to make a big difference between multiple sclerosis and other disorders affecting the protective myelin sheath around nerve fibers, report Tohoku University scientists and ...

New insight into the underlying mechanisms of a rare and fatal pediatric dymyelinating disease suggests older medications approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may help these patients.

A recent study aimed to evaluate the burden of age of onset of cardiovascular conditions in a US population with multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, or transverse myelitis and ...

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and related demyelinating diseases, including myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD), represent a spectrum of autoimmune ...

C57 BL/6N mice injected intracranially with the A59 strain of mouse hepatitis virus exhibit extensive viral replication in glial cells of the spinal cord and develop demyelinating lesions followed by ...

Demyelination in the central nervous system (CNS) underlies many human diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS). We report here the findings of our study of the CNS demyelination process using ...

Ghanaian actor John Peasah, popularly known as Drogba from the YOLO TV series, has requested that fans stop inviting him to ...

As used by the pathologist, the term "demyelination" means that the myelin sheath of certain nerve fibers can no longer be demonstrated in a microscopical section treated with one of a number of ...

Balo's disease, a rare variant of multiple sclerosis (MS), is a demyelinating disorder of the CNS in which the myelin (the fatty substance that covers nerve fibers) is destroyed. Balo’s disease is ...

THE demyelinating diseases of the nervous system remain a challenge to scientific investigation and a stumbling block in medical therapy. Comprising an important group of neurologic disorders, they ...