New Headway in Hopes for Multiple Sclerosis Patients

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Millions of people around the world suffer from varying degrees of multiple sclerosis, a neural disorder that progressively limits movement and mobility in thousands of patients around the world. Now, researchers in Edinburgh, Scotland, have suggested that treatments for multiple sclerosis are on the horizon; treatments that may severely curtail the physical decline of patients suffering from this nerve condition.
Professor ffrench-Constant, Director of Multiple Sclerosis Research Center in Edinburgh, says that stem cells can be used to help repair nerve damage caused by this insidious disease. The Multiple Sclerosis Research Center is a portion of the Scottish Center for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University. Current medicines on the market are only used to help reduce the inflammation associated with multiple sclerosis, but ffrench-Constant is hoping to find a way to help the body rebuild or re-create the myelin sheath, which protects nerve's fibers. He plans to use stem cells to do this, because stem cells have the ability to transform into different types of tissues found within the body.

"My vision for a patient coming into a clinic in 10 or maybe 15 years time, is they will be given a mixture of drugs to prevent the inflammation and to promote repair. That way, MS would no longer be a chronic, disabling disease."

It is guaranteed that millions of multiple sclerosis patients around the world will be watching Professor ffrench-Constant's research closely in the hopes that they may someday face a brighter future.

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