Cataracts, a common eye condition characterized by clouding of the lens, often lead to blurred vision and, if left untreated, ...
A teenage girl presented to the hospital emergency department with a three-week history of intermittent frontal headache, which was worse in the morning and associated with nausea, vomiting, lethargy, ...
These can include: MS is a progressive autoimmune disease that causes demyelination in the brain, spine, or optic nerve. The immune system damages myelin, forming lesions or “plaques”.
The CNS includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. MS involves the immune system damaging myelin — a substance that surrounds and protects nerve fibers. Damaged areas of myelin are ...
Seven-micron-thick longitudinal sections were stained with Luxol Fast Blue (LFB)/H&E for assessment of demyelination using a 0-3 grading scheme with the following criteria: 0 = normal optic nerve, ...
The researchers found that mothers who were exposed to sunlight during their pregnancy, especially during the second ...
Inflammation of the retinal vascular endothelium can precede demyelination and perivascular cuffing and oedema of the optic nerve sheath leads to breakdown of myelin (193). Idiopathic demyelinating ...
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease ... which are often seen with combined involvement of the optic nerve and spinal cord. MOGAD can be confused with multiple sclerosis or ...
Examination revealed right optic neuritis, left optic nerve atrophy and demyelinating lesions in the juxtacortical brain parenchyma. Anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody was elevated, ...
The ACUITY study (NCT04762017) included… IRX4204, a compound that Io Therapeutics is developing to treat neurological diseases, facilitated myelin repair ... individual nerve fibers with a ...