immune system

December 14, 2017December 14, 2017

Body’s Biological Clock and Time of Day Affects Immune Cells, Mouse Study Shows

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Researchers further explored how our internal biological clock — known as circadian rhythm — influences immune system responses. Disruptions to that rhythm are associated with immune diseases ... Read more

December 5, 2017December 6, 2017

Human Vaccines Project Studies Aim to Unveil Workings of Immune System

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Scientists announced positive and encouraging outcomes from two clinical studies — running as part of the larger Human Vaccines Project — aiming to unravel the mechanisms that ... Read more

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017

Vegetable-rich Diet Promotes Bacteria That Fights Inflammation in MS, Study Shows

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A diet rich in vegetables and low in protein reduced inflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients by modulating the gut microbiome and promoting bacteria that helps ... Read more

October 31, 2017October 31, 2017

#MSParis2017 – T-cell vs. B-cell Debate More Meeting of Minds Than ‘Rumble in the Jungle’

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News commentary One particular session on Day 2 of the four-day 7th Joint ECTRIMS-ACTRIMS Meeting — which drew 10,000 researchers, doctors, industry representatives, and patient advocates ... Read more

September 28, 2017September 28, 2017

MS Alphabet: Interferon, INO, inflammation and Other ‘I’ Terms

Columns, MS in Moderation, a column by Tamara Sellman

(Editor’s note: Tamara Sellman continues her occasional series on the MS alphabet with this column about terms starting with the letter I.) Symptoms of MS Incontinence ... Read more

August 31, 2017August 31, 2017

MS and a Type of Schizophrenia May Belong to the Same Class of Disorders, Review Concludes

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Striking similarities between patients with multiple sclerosis and a type of schizophrenia suggest the disorders are related, according to a review of a number of studies. Dr. ... Read more

August 22, 2017August 23, 2017

Mavenclad Improves Relapsing MS Patients’ Quality of Life, Independent U.K. Study Finds

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Merck’s Mavenclad tablets significantly improve quality of life among relapsing multiple sclerosis patients while reducing the number of relapses, according to new analyses of previously unpublished ... Read more

August 22, 2017August 22, 2017

Autoimmunity Traced to Failure of B-cell Protein, Caveolin-1, to Work as Intended in Study

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A new and potentially important mechanism in the development of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis was discovered by scientists at the University of Freiburg, Germany. They identify a protein, called ... Read more

August 14, 2017August 15, 2017

Human Gut Microbes May Help Suppress MS, New Research Suggests

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A bacteria present in the gut, called Prevotella histicola, prevented multiple sclerosis from developing in a preclinical mouse model, found researchers at the Mayo Clinic in ... Read more

August 11, 2017August 14, 2017

Children and Teens with Multiple Sclerosis Consume Less Iron, Study Reports

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Children with multiple sclerosis consume less iron, which may affect their immune and nervous systems, according to a study. Most MS cases occur between the ages of ... Read more

July 17, 2017July 18, 2017

Copaxone Benefits RRMS Patients in the Long Term by Modulating Immune System Responses, Study Shows

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An Italian study shows that first-line treatment with Copaxone benefits relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients by boosting the number of anti-inflammatory immune cells and restoring the balance ... Read more

July 7, 2017July 11, 2017

Mavenclad Reduces MS Relapses by Reseting the Immune System

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New analyses of how Merck’s Mavenclad (cladribine tablets) act to treat relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) give researchers an entirely new picture of immune processes leading to ... Read more

July 7, 2017July 11, 2017

FOXP3 Gene Mutations May Explain Immune System Excitability in MS and Other Diseases

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A gene mutation may explain the uncontrolled, inflammatory immune response seen in autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases like multiple sclerosis, scientists at the Research Institute of ... Read more

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017

UMD Team Reverses Paralysis in MS Mouse Model Using Novel Immunotherapy Strategy

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Scientists at the University of Maryland have developed an experimental treatment to control the immune system and recover movement in a paralyzed mouse model of multiple sclerosis ... Read more

March 10, 2017March 10, 2017

Researchers Rewire Immune System to Treat MS, Type 1 Diabetes, Other Autoimmune Diseases

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Researchers managed to retrain the immune system to ignore antigens that trigger an autoimmune reaction. This approach alleviated the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and type ... Read more

February 24, 2017February 24, 2017

#ACTRIMS2017 – Sex Hormones and Chromosomes Lead to Gender Differences in MS, Studies Report

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Sex hormones, and genes in the two sex chromosomes, impact the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in men and women differently, and lead to differences in ... Read more

February 9, 2017February 8, 2017

How the Blood Brain Barrier May Thwart MS Progression

Columns, Faith of the Mustard Seed - a Column by Debi Wilson

Lately, I have been reading more and more about the potential connection between the blood brain barrier and multiple sclerosis. I have been researching the blood ... Read more

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016

Immune System May Harbor Natural Way of Fighting MS, Other Autoimmune Diseases

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A variant in the TYK2 gene, which encodes an immune system protein, may work to protect people from autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS), without overly depressing the body’s ... Read more

October 24, 2016October 24, 2016

‘Rare’ Molecule in Immune System Turns Out to Be Common, and May Be Part of What Goes Wrong in MS

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Researchers have discovered that a type of immune molecule — called “spliced epitopes,” once believed to be very rare — in fact makes up a large ... Read more

October 21, 2016October 21, 2016

Genome-wide Analysis Pinpoints 200 Gene Variants Common to MS

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A genome-wide analysis of over 110,000 people allowed researchers with the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (IMSGC) to discover 200 genetic loci (the position of genes on a chromosome) that are common to ... Read more

September 30, 2016October 3, 2016

Instability of Myelin Membranes May Be True Trigger of MS, Study Reports

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In multiple sclerosis (MS), scientists have long believed that the body’s own immune system attacked myelin sheaths, the “insulating tape” that surrounds neurons, causing the disease. But researchers at ... Read more

September 23, 2016September 23, 2016

Protein Biomarker Identified for MS May Predict Disease Severity, Treatment Response

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A newly discovered potential biomarker of multiple sclerosis (MS) may help to distinguish between people who will go on to have less severe disease and those in ... Read more

September 1, 2016September 1, 2016

MS Treatments May Lower Levels of Immune White Blood Cells

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Multiple sclerosis patients are at risk of developing lymphopenia, or abnormally low levels of immune defense white blood cells, called lymphocytes, according to a study that investigated lymphocyte ... Read more

July 25, 2016July 25, 2016

Gut Bacteria and Multiple Sclerosis: What We Already Know, and What We’ve Still to Learn

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Gut bacteria and health have been topics of considerable scientific speculation in recent years, and the field of multiple sclerosis (MS) research is no exception. But what ... Read more

July 11, 2016July 11, 2016

Gut Microbiota Seen to Differ in People with Relapsing MS, Especially Those with Active Disease

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Fecal samples from a group of people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) showed evidence of a different gut microbiota than that found in healthy controls, and ... Read more

July 11, 2016July 11, 2016

Workings of Common Statin, Simvastatin, Explored in Ways Relevant to Multiple Sclerosis

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One of the world’s most commonly used medications — the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin — was found to affect the immune system in a way that can ... Read more

June 16, 2016June 16, 2016

New Zealand Clinical Trial to Test Potential of Antipsychotics to Treat SPMS

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An immunologist at Victoria University of Wellington is leading a clinical trial that will use existing drugs in a new way to try to treat secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS), ... Read more

May 17, 2016June 21, 2016

Study of Immune System Response to Viral Infection Revives Possibility of Link Between MS and Viruses

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Researchers investigating immune B-cell response to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) found that it may correlate with the amount of brain-specific B-cells in the blood ... Read more

May 13, 2016May 13, 2016

Dimethyl Fumarate, a Common MS Drug, Found to Work Independently of Nrf2 Pathway

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A commonly prescribed multiple sclerosis (MS) medication may act to modulate the immune system. The finding is described in the article “Dimethyl fumarate treatment induces adaptive and innate immune ... Read more

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016

Fingolimod (Gilenya) Shown to Benefit Neurons as Well as Immune System

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The immune system-suppressing multiple sclerosis (MS) drug fingolimod (Gilenya) also has potentially beneficial effects on the nervous system, according to a recent study, “The multiple sclerosis drug fingolimod ... Read more

January 25, 2016January 25, 2016

Some Forms of MS Might Be Treatable with Hematopoietic Stem Cells

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Clinical trials suggest that hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), a common treatment for bone marrow and blood cancers, could also help people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The ... Read more

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016

MS Treatment that Reboots Immune System Featured on BBC Panorama

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A recent BBC Panorama program titled “Can you stop my Multiple Sclerosis?” featured a ground-breaking treatment for select patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) that has been developed at Sheffield ... Read more

December 16, 2015December 16, 2015

MS May Be Triggered by the Death of Brain Cells

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Researchers are proposing for a first time that multiple sclerosis (MS) is triggered by the death of a specific cell population within the central nervous system called oligodendrocytes. ... Read more

December 15, 2015December 15, 2015

MS Nerve Degeneration Triggered by Chain Reaction in Cells

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Researchers in the United Kingdom recently discovered that a small molecule triggers the destruction of axons, a phenomenon observed in neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). The study is ... Read more

December 3, 2015December 3, 2015

MS Society of Canada Helps Fund Pediatric Study of Gut Bacteria

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The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation recently announced the funding of new research on pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) and ... Read more

November 5, 2015November 5, 2015

Autoimmune Disease, Obesity Link Found in Subset of Immune Dendritic Cells

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In a recent study published in the journal Immunity, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel reported the findings that a small subtype of immune ... Read more

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015

Importance of Microbiota in MS Development Explored in ECTRIMS 2015 Presentation

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Three parallel sessions concerning multiple sclerosis (MS) prevention, clinical phenotypes and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were featured at the 31st Congress of the European Committee for ... Read more

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015

Approach to Treating MS May be Transformed Thanks to Newly Discovered Connection Between Immune-Nervous Systems

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An exciting new discovery has turned the medical world upside down, and could have important implications for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). It turns out ... Read more

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