"Curing MS: How Science Is Solving the Mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis".

نویسنده

  • Rebecca Zerzan
چکیده

SUMMARY On a grander scale, multiple sclerosis is a battle between a patient's will to fight and the disease's vicious attack on central nerve cells. On a cellular scale, it's between the T helper 1 (Th1) cell, which attacks and destroys the myelin sheath that protects nerve cells, and the Th2 and Th3 cells, which try to bring Th1 cells under control.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discovery medicine

دوره 5 26  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005