Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage
Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “I have Multiple Sclerosis”. Nothing epic there but I read an article today, which I linked to, which demonstrated what was known but finally more thoroughly studied. The fact is that when women have MS (over half) get pregnant their MS goes into remission. The study was on an MS like condition introduced into mice. When they became pregnant the mice went into remission. They want to know if they can do the same thing in humans. I’ll go out in a limb by saying I’m willing to talk about it sailor ;-).
To summarize
In a paper to be published in the February 21 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, a team of researchers from the U of C’s Faculty of Medicine reports that a study conducted on mice found that the hormone prolactin encourages the spontaneous production of myelin, the fatty substance that coats nerve cells and plays a critical role in transmitting messages in the central nervous system.
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