Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammation that damages your optic nerve. It can cause vision loss and pain when you move your eyes. As the inflammation goes away, your symptoms usually get better.

Parts of these neurons are protected by an insulating layer called a myelin sheath ... travel down your optic nerves. If you have MS, your immune system attacks the myelin sheath that insulates ...

Naismith et al. state that they preferentially recruited patients with severe optic neuritis (with ≤20/200 vision) and poor recovery (to <20/40 vision).This bias in selecting study participants ...

About Acute Optic Neuritis Acute optic neuritis is a rare ... remyelination often occurs but it is incomplete. Without the myelin sheath protecting the axon, neurons located in demyelinated ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic central nervous system (CNS) disease that affects the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves ... the nerve cell’s myelin sheath. The nervous system comprises ...

Lack of pain Ischemic optic ... neuritis (sarcoid-, inflammatory bowel disease-, Lyme disease-, Behçet disease- or syphilis-associated), intraocular lymphoma, intraocular TB Optic nerve sheath ...

The trial met safety and efficacy endpoints. OCS-05 met safety and efficacy endpoints in the treatment of acute optic neuritis in a phase 2 trial, according to a press release from Oculis.