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Article: MS study offers theory for why repair of brain's wiring fails.
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- July 19, 2009
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Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that damage to nerve cells in people with multiple sclerosis accumulates because the body's natural mechanism for repair of the nerve coating called "myelin" stalls out.
The study, published, July 1, 2009, in the print edition of "Genes & Development," was conducted by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and University of Cambridge. The research was led by co-senior investigator David Rowitch, MD, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UCSF.
The investigation, conducted in mice and in human tissue, showed that repair of nerve fibers is hampered by biochemical signals ...