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By N2H

Suspicious Immune Molecule Elevated In MS Patients October 1, 2008

Filed under: MS — The Symptoms Of Multiple Sclerosis Blog @ 7:00 am

A protein that helps keep immune cells quiet is more abundant in the spinal fluid of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), further boosting suspicion that the protein, TREM-2, may be an important contributor to the disease. More of an immune-control protein might seem like a boon to MS sufferers, whose symptoms are caused by misdirected immune attacks on the protective lining that coats nerve cell branches. But researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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