autoimmune destruction of what in the cns is a disorder called multiple sclerosis
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The Immune System's Big Mistake: Multiple Sclerosis One of the most common disorders to affect the Central Nervous System (the brain and the spinal cord), Multiple Sclerosis is a demyelinating disease, which means it destroys the fatty material that surrounds and insulates the nerves.
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- Multiple Sclerosis. Description. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disease, which affects the central nervous system. The nerve fibres, which make up our central nervous system and transmit messages from our brain, throughout our body, are wrapped in a fatty sheath, made of a substance known as Myelin. In MS, the Myelin sheath is attacked causing inflammation or damage.
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What is MS? In multiple sclerosis, disease activity damages the myelin in a process called demyelination. Demyelination results in lesions that lead to a breakdown in signal transmissions. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) are a result of this communication breakdown.
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Overview In multiple sclerosis, the protective coating on nerve fibers (myelin) is damaged and may eventually be destroyed. Depending on where the nerve damage occurs, MS can affect vision, sensation, coordination, movement, and bladder and bowel control. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). In MS, the immune system attacks the protective sheath (myelin) that covers nerve fibers and causes communication problems between your brain and the rest of your body. Eventually, the disease can cause the nerves themselves to deteriorate or become permanently damaged.
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system. It is thought to be an autoimmune disorder, a condition in which the body mistakenly attacks itself. It’s an unpredictable condition that can be relatively benign to disabling.
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- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. With multiple sclerosis, the brain has difficulty getting messages to the rest of the body. Though we know relatively little about multiple sclerosis, research into its causes and possible treatments is rapidly developing.
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Multiple sclerosis â candidate mechanisms underlying CNS atrophy The most common chronic inflammatory disease of the CNS is multiple sclerosis (MS), a condition that leads to reversible and/or irreversible disability depending on the type and stage of the disease (Box 1Box 1).
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Myelin Function Damaged myelin. Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune condition where the body’s own immune cells attack this myelin sheath. T cells strip the myelin from the nerve fibers it protects, meaning the fibers are left exposed and uninsulated. These unprotected nerves are then less able to conduct electrical impulses from the brain to other parts of the body and the nerve signals sent to the brain are delayed and distorted. The damaged areas of the nerve where the myelin has been destroyed forms hard scar tissue (sclerosis) that further disrupts the conduction capacity of the nerve.
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- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease, which means it affects your nerves. A substance called myelin wraps around your nerves to protect them. MS is the breakdown of myelin as your body attacks itself. The word “sclerosis” refers to the scar tissue or lesions that appear as the myelin is damaged. The unprotected nerves can’t function as they would with normal, healthy myelin. The damaged nerves produce a wide range of symptoms that vary in severity.
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- The CNS is full of nerve cells called neurons. These are the brain cells of popular usage. There are different types of neuron in different areas of the CNS. Those in the white matter tissue are are the ones most liable to be attacked in multiple sclerosis.
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- Multiple system atrophy. Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a degenerative neurological disorder that depicts a group of disorders characterised by the neuronal degeneration mainly in the substantia nigra, striatum, autonomic nervous system and cerebellum.
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Chapter 23 - Demyelinating diseases of the nervous system Multiple sclerosis is a condition characterized by inflammatory, demyelinating lesions in the central nervous system separated in space and time. The Schwann cell is the cell in the peripheral nervous system that creates myelin. The oligodendrocyte is the glial cell in the central nervous system that creates myelin.
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Multiple sclerosis G35- > Multiple Sclerosis (MS). A disorder of the central nervous system marked by weakness, numbness, a loss of muscle coordination, and problems with vision, speech, and bladder control. Multiple sclerosis is thought to be an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system destroys myelin.ultiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the nervous system which affects young and middle‐aged adults. Spasticity, a common problem in people with MS, is a disorder of voluntary movement caused by damage to the central nervous system.
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- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that affects the nervous system, which includes the spinal cord, optic nerves, and brain. In a healthy body, those nerves are surrounded by a protective layer of fatty tissue called the myelin sheath. If you have MS, that fatty layer is irreversibly damaged by an unknown cause.
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How Does MS Wreak Its Damage? MS Focuses on the Central Nervous System. MS attacks tissues in the brain and spinal cord, known as the central nervous system (CNS). This system includes the complex network of nerve cells responsible for sending, receiving, and interpreting information from all parts of the body.
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- Myelin is fatty material that forms a sheath around the nerves of the CNS to insulate and protect the them. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the sheath is partially or completely destroyed causing symptoms like fatigue, pain, bladder and bowel problems, sexual dysfunction, and memory problems.
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Multiple Sclerosis  In-Depth Report Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, unpredictable disease of the central nervous system (CNS), which is made up of the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. It is thought to be an immune-mediated disorder, in which the immune system incorrectly attacks healthy tissue in the CNS.ultiple sclerosis is a chronic, unpredictable disease of the central nervous system (CNS), which is made up of the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. It is thought to be an immune-mediated disorder, in which the immune system incorrectly attacks healthy tissue in the CNS.
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Glossary for Autoimmune diseases Scleroderma, also known as systemic sclerosis, is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterised by hardening (sclero) of the skin (derma). In the more severe form, it also affects internal organs. Limited scleroderma involves cutaneous manifestations that mainly affect the hands, arms and face.eath occurs most often from lung, heart and kidney complications. In diffuse cutaneous disease, five-year survival is 70% and 10-year survival is 55%. The cause of scleroderma is unknown. It is an autoimmune condition, in which the body's immune system attacks healthy tissues.
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Multiple Sclerosis  In-Depth Report Multiple sclerosis is thought to be an autoimmune disorder. In autoimmune diseases, immune factors attack the body’s own cells. In the case of MS, the immune system attacks the tissues that make up myelin. The damage to myelin, and nerve fibers (axons), is caused by over-active T cells.
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Autoimmune Disorders That Attack Nervous System Myasthenia Gravis. Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune disorder that attacks skeletal (voluntary) muscles and the nerves that control them, resulting in muscle weakness that worsens with activity and improves with rest.This is due to a defect in transmission of the nerve impulses between the nerves and muscles.utoimmune disorders of the nervous system can attack the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the brain and spinal cord, or the peripheral nervous system, consisting of nerves that connect the CNS with the limbs and organs. The most common disorders are multiple sclerosis and myasthenia gravis.
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Parkinsonâs Symptoms, Causes & Risk Factors You Need to Know Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. With multiple sclerosis, the brain has difficulty getting messages to the rest of the body.
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- Yoga for MS. By Roger Nolan. Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease in which the body's defensive immune system attacks and destroys the fatty tissue -- myelin -- surrounding nerves in the brain and spinal cord. These myelin sheaths perform the same function as insulation around an electrical wire.
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multiple sclerosis A. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks the central nervous system (CNS), causing demyelination (loss of myelin). The myelin sheath helps the neurons (nerves) carry electrical signals.
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- MS is a neurological disease that occurs when the insulating material ( myelin ) around nerve cells in the central nervous system is damaged. The word sclerosis comes from the Greek word skleros, meaning hard.In multiple sclerosis, hard areas called plaques develop along a neuron's axon.Multiple refers to the many different areas of the nervous system that may have damaged myelin.eople usually develop symptoms of MS when they are 20 to 40 years old; MS is two to three times more common in women than in men. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society estimates that 250,000 to 350,000 people in the US have MS.
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Multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS), also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata, is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.ultiple sclerosis (MS), also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata, is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.