People with multiple sclerosis (MS) often experience poor balance and increased sway during standing, but their balance strategies are not well understood. This study com [...]

The blood microenvironment is a dynamic system consisting of a diverse range of cells and plasma proteins that function together to maintain homeostasis. In my dissertati [...]

Multiple Sclerosis is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) in which the degeneration of axons causes cumulative disability. The relat [...]

The aim of this project was to identify differences in patient ratings of benefit and satisfaction between conventional therapies, complementary and alternative medicine [...]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) involves immune-mediated demyelination and axonal damage, driven by CD4+ T-cell infiltration across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This work exami [...]

Central nervous system demyelination occurs in numerous conditions, including multiple sclerosis (MS). Remyelination in acute lesions involves the recruitment and maturat [...]

Roy Laver Swank, M.D., talks about his early years in Camas, Washington, his education at the University of Washington and Northwestern University Medical School, then tu [...]

Myelin ensheaths axons and increases their conduction velocities. In the central nervous system (CNS) myelin is produced by oligodendrocytes (OLs) that differentiate from [...]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by immune-mediated destruction of myelin in the central nervous system, resulting in disrupted nerve [...]