22-11-2017 15:08 via genengnews.com

Team Makes Major Advance in Showing How Some Immune Cells Cause MS

Therapeutic strategies against multiple sclerosis (MS) should focus on blocking two distinct ways rogue immune cells attack healthy neurons, according to a new study, “Caveolin1 Is Required for Th1 Cell Infiltration, but Not Tight Junction Remodeling, at the Blood-Brain Barrier in Autoimmune Neuroinflammation,” in Cell Reports .In MS, immune cells degrade the insulation that protects neurons and allows them to signal to one another; however, little is known about how immune cell
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