Therapy may reverse effects of Multiple Sclerosis

Researchers have found a new therapeutic method that may restore damaged myelin sheaths lost during Multiple Sclerosis.

Researchers introduced an experimental demyelinating injury into the spinal cord of an old mouse, using surgical techniques, creating small areas of myelin loss.  An affected area was then exposed to cells found in the blood of young mouse which caused the younger immune cells to restore effective remyelination of the spinal cord.

This study successfully proves the possibility that regenerative therapies will work throughout the duration of the disease.