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Article: MS STUDY OFFERS THEORY FOR WHY REPAIR OF BRAIN'S WIRING FAILS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 -- The University of California at San Francisco issued the following press release:
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 today, 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 ...