News tagged with fatty sheath

Starving inflammatory immune cells slows damage caused by multiple sclerosis

In a paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports, a pair of researchers at the University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences report that inhibiting the ab ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Common cough medicine may help treat multiple sclerosis

(Medical Xpress) -- A drug widely used in over-the-counter cough medicines appears to protect against symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a finding that could offer a new and inexpensive therapy for a condition with few effective ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Potential impact of cinnamon on multiple sclerosis studied

A neurological scientist at Rush University Medical Center has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate whether cinnamon, a common food spice and flavoring material, may stop the destructive ...

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created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Early protein processes crucial to formation and layering of myelin membrane

New findings from an international team of researchers probing the nerve-insulating myelin sheath were bolstered by the work of Boston College biologists, who used x-rays to uncover how mutations affect the structure of myelin, ...

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited

They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0