What is Multiple Sclerosis?
June 18th 2009 09:41
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a problem on the body's central nervous sytem. We probably hear this condition less frequently as other CNS diseases, but this is somehow degenerative, progressive, and debilitating.
Some say that MS is an auto-immune disease, very much similar to Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)... Auto-immune diseases are those characterized by the activation of our white blood cells and immune responses against our own body parts.
In RA the immune response destroys the joints. But in Multiple Sclerosis the response is against the CNS.
I also suspect, though not really literature-based, that genes that produce misfolded proteins or that instructs unnecessary processes in the cells, can also be a factor why our own immune system destroys our own neurons.
Because as we all know, if a cell's activity becomes delinquent, it repairs itself, or self-destructs, or the immune system takes care of it.
In Multiple Sclerosis the nerves are being demyelinated, or their myelin sheath are being destroyed.
Myelin sheath is supposed to speed-up neuron-to-neuron communication. Without it, the circuits in the brain or spinal cord becomes hay-wire...(TO BE CONTINUED)
Some say that MS is an auto-immune disease, very much similar to Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)... Auto-immune diseases are those characterized by the activation of our white blood cells and immune responses against our own body parts.
In RA the immune response destroys the joints. But in Multiple Sclerosis the response is against the CNS.
I also suspect, though not really literature-based, that genes that produce misfolded proteins or that instructs unnecessary processes in the cells, can also be a factor why our own immune system destroys our own neurons.
Because as we all know, if a cell's activity becomes delinquent, it repairs itself, or self-destructs, or the immune system takes care of it.
In Multiple Sclerosis the nerves are being demyelinated, or their myelin sheath are being destroyed.
Myelin sheath is supposed to speed-up neuron-to-neuron communication. Without it, the circuits in the brain or spinal cord becomes hay-wire...(TO BE CONTINUED)
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