A breakthrough new experimental treatment that uses nanoparticles covered with proteins to trick the immune system, managed to stop it attacking myelin and halt disease progression in mice with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers say the approach may also be applicable to other auto-immune diseases such as asthma and type 1 diabetes.
Corresponding author Stephen Miller is the Judy Gugenheim Research Professor of Microbiology-Immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago in the US. He says in a statement:
We administered these particles to animals who have a disease very similar to relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis and stopped it in its tracks.
We prevented any future relapses for up to 100 days, which is the equivalent of several years in the life of an MS patient,
he adds — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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