Recent evidence suggests that multiple sclerosis also affects neurons, as cortical atrophy is detected early in the disease, axon transection can occur in inflammatory lesions, and axonal loss is ...

Here's a quick primer on multiple sclerosis. MS is an autoimmune disease ... In severe cases, MS can attack the axon, the ...

The University College London and Multiple Sclerosis Institute ... and they prevent axon degeneration, maintain impulse conduction, and improve clinical status in experimental autoimmune ...

The axon caliber (diameter ... The representative demyelinating disease, and perhaps the most well known, is multiple sclerosis (MS). This autoimmune neurological disorder is caused by the ...

B-cell-axon activity is an emerging area of MS ... the University of Hamburg also worked on the study. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the National Institutes of Health provided ...

and multiple sclerosis. The three best examples of ion channel/receptor clustering in the nervous system are found at the synapse, the node of Ranvier, and the axon initial segment (AIS). In the case ...