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Nature 422, 671-672 (17 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422671a
Medicine: Collateral damage repaired
Lawrence Steinman
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Abstract
Multiple sclerosis is characterized by immunological attacks across a wide front in the brain and spinal cord. In mice, the damage can be partly repaired by neural precursor cells, delivered into the blood or spinal fluid.
Multiple sclerosis affects nearly one million people worldwide, subjecting people from young adulthood onwards to repeated immunological attacks on the brain and spinal cord. Twice as many women as men are afflicted with the disease.
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