Sentences with phrase «immune system attacks nerve»

Blood from people affected by the 2014 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia provides the first evidence that the virus can make the immune system attack nerve cells

Zika was known for 60 years as a mild virus that appeared sporadically, but since 2007, two troubling shifts have taken place, Dye said: Zika virus now results in widespread outbreaks of hundreds or thousands of cases, and it is associated with neurological disorders like microcephaly and Guillain - Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves.

There is no cure for multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease in which the immune system attacks the nerves.

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They also found AXIN2 in the damaged nerve cells of adults with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks myelin.

There was another intriguing connection: Acinetobacter are molecular mimics of proteins found in myelin, the nerve cell coating that the immune system attacks in MS.. That suggests the bacteria might trigger immune attacks that hit myelin, too, as when soldiers who inadvertently resemble the enemy get hit by friendly fire.

Balance impairment is one of the most common and disabling symptoms of MS, a disease of the central nervous system in which the body's immune system attacks the protective sheath around nerve fibers.

The faulty nerve signaling that underlies the disease is thought to stem from the body's own immune system attacking and degrading the axons» myelin sheaths.

In both types of MS, immune system cells attack and strip away myelin, the fatty protective sheathing that insulates nerve cells.

Dr. Siqueira said she and her colleagues are now investigating whether the problem was the result of an auto - immune disorder sparked by one of the viruses that caused the immune system to attack nerve cells, similar to what occurs in Zika patients who develop Guillain - Barré Syndrome.

More than 2.3 million people worldwide have MS, a disease where the immune system attacks myelin, an insulation layer surrounding nerve fibers.

The condition is caused by the immune system malfunctioning and mistakenly attacking nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

An unpredictable disease that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the body, MS is triggered when the immune system attacks the myelin sheath, the protective covering around the axons of nerve fibers.

A rare condition that begins as the body's immune system attacks peripheral nerves, causing weakness or tingling in the lower extremities.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys the protective covering of the nerves, called the myelin sheath, through a process called demyelination.

MS, which afflicts millions of people worldwide, develops when the body's immune system attacks the protective myelin sheath that surrounds nerve cells.

To prevent or reduce the damage done to nerve cells by the immune system, researchers are exploring ways to modulate what cells the immune system attacks or the intensity of its attack.

Numbness in different parts of the body including the legs is one of the most common symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a condition in which the immune system attacks the sheath around nerve cells.

Another autoimmune disease, multiple sclerosis (MS) occurs when the immune system attacks the body's own nerve cells and disrupts communication between the brain and the rest of the body.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the body's immune system attacks myelin, the protective sheath around nerve cells that helps send messages to the brain and other parts of the body.

Multiple sclerosis is a condition in which the immune system attacks myelin, the sheath that wraps around nerve cells.

The myelin sheath, which protects nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord, is attacked and damaged by the immune system.

No one knows what causes multiple sclerosis, in which the body's immune system attacks the protective myelin sheath surrounding nerve fibers in the brain and spine.

Stress - activated cortisol bombards the memory center, killing nerve cells in the hippocampus, and attacks the immune system, which often causes depression and anxiety.