Episode 819
MS vaccine using your own brain cells
Injecting material made from myelin-producing brain cells can turn off multiple sclerosis...
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
November 17, 20204m 24s
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Show Notes
Could an injection of your own brain cells be a way to halt multiple sclerosis - MS? That's what researchers in the US are finding in mice with the disease. In MS, the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, damaging a material called myelin. An extract of this myelin material, injected into the bloodstream, can permanently deactivate the immune cells that cause MS... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Topics
Abdolmohomad Rostamimultiple sclerosismsoligodendrocytesmyelininflammationvaccineT cells