Research

Research Summary: Melatonin enhances interleukin-10 expression and suppresses chemotaxis to inhibit inflammation in situ and reduce the severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis The...

It has been known for a while that women are more likely to develop multiple sclerosis than men.  There have been many studies that have indicated that this may be related to female sex hormones.  For...

Research Summary: Safety and immunologic effects of high- and low-dose cholecalciferol in MS The background There is growing evidence to implicate a potential role for Vitamin D in the development and...

Research Summary: Relevance of asymptomatic spinal MRI lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis The background Magnetic resonance imaging or MRI has become a common tool for the diagnosis of multiple...

Research Summary: Granzyme B-inhibitor serpina3n induces neuroprotection in vitro and in vivo The background Previous studies have shown that immune cells, known as cytotoxic T cells, are critical in the...

Professor Eva Havrdova from Charles University in Prague presented at the recent ECTRIMS Congress, where she discussed the use of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) for the treatment of multiple...

The Background Many studies have highlighted a link between stress and multiple sclerosis (MS), including research that has shown that norepinephrine (a regulator of stress) is implicated in the mouse model...

In 2013, the team from Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis (OMS) published a paper as part of the HOLISM research study in the International Journal of Neuroscience. This study showed that the consumption of...

A detailed look at the development of Innate Immunotherapeutics' potential Secondary Progressive MS treatment,...

The development of the International MS Genetics Consortium has led to the identification of more than 159 genetic variants that are associated with MS. However, we have to ask how important are these and are...