• Question: Have you done any research or trialling of drugs specific to MS?

    Asked by anon-256184 to Tiffany on 2 Jun 2020.
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      Tiffany Chan answered on 2 Jun 2020: last edited 2 Jun 2020 12:57 pm


      Hi (again!)
      I personally haven’t worked on drugs specific to MS. However, MS is thought to be caused by a damaged/leaky blood-brain barrier, which allows immune cells to enter the brain and attack the coating of neurons (the myelin sheath). This interferes with the ability of neurons to communicate with each other. Because of this, many of the MS drugs currently in development are trying to promote the repair of the myelin sheath or reduce the number of immune cells entering the brain.

      This is a nice summary of current MS drugs in development and how they work, but feel free to drop me a message if you want to talk about any specifics and I will (try!!) to help 🙂 https://www.mstrust.org.uk/about-ms/ms-treatments/drugs-development

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