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posted by martyb on Friday August 14 2020, @03:28AM   Printer-friendly

"Reelin" in a new treatment for multiple sclerosis:

In an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), decreasing the amount of a protein made in the liver significantly protected against development of the disease's characteristic symptoms and promoted recovery in symptomatic animals, UTSW scientists report.

[...] In 1997, researchers discovered a protein secreted in the brain called Reelin. Subsequent work showed that Reelin appears to help the brain organize itself during development and assist in forming connections between brain cells during adulthood. However, as researchers learned more about Reelin, they discovered that large amounts of it are produced in the liver and that cells lining blood vessels have receptors for this protein.

[...] Herz, Calvier, and their colleagues worked with mice affected by a disease called experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a condition that mimics human MS. When these animals were genetically modified so that the researchers could control Reelin production, they found that eliminating this protein substantially mitigated the disease's typical paralysis or even eliminated it altogether, in contrast to mice with normal Reelin levels. These effects appeared to stem from the lack of monocyte adhesion on the altered animals' blood vessel walls, which prevented entry into the central nervous system.

A potential new treatment for MS sufferers?

[Ed Note - "Calvier and Herz are shareholders of Reelin Therapeutics Inc. of La Jolla, California, along with co-author Maria Z. Kounnas, Ph.D., who is affiliated with Reelin Therapeutics. Calvier and Herz are co-inventors of a patent related to anti-Reelin strategies (application number 15/763,047 (patent pending) and publication number 20180273637). "]


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @05:55AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @05:55AM (#1036449)

    But it is the only possible human system. Why do you think all those teachers teach for a pittance? Why do the first responders run toward danger when, seriously, they are not getting paid enough for that? Why do professors accept the lower income that they could have surpassed by prostituting their knowledge to industry? Philanthropy, that is why. Corporations and assholes like you are misanthropes, people-haters, and we all hate you back. Get your ass to Galt's Gulch, and die you incompetent excuse for a human being! And, I am being polite, so don't provoke me further.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Friday August 14 2020, @08:33AM (2 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday August 14 2020, @08:33AM (#1036475) Homepage
    Ari, if you'd posted that non-A/C, I'd have up-modded you. Don't hide your light under a bushel.

    And, apropos of nothing, where do you stand on the horrors of "multiple sclerisis"?
    I personally think it's an abomination, and must be stamped out forthwith.

        Multiple scleroses.

    The clue's in the plurality.

    There, I went there. Downmod me to hell, materhumpers.
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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @09:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @09:38AM (#1036487)

      where do you stand on the horrors of "multiple sclerisis"?

      Yes, should have been "sclerises".
      Very much like when one has multiple "narcosis/narcoses" or "scoliosis/scolioses" only for... oh, wait.

      As for where one stands, σκληρός is hard enough to stand on top. Of the horror that is.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 14 2020, @09:42AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 14 2020, @09:42AM (#1036489) Journal

      Downmod me to hell, materhumpers.

      Hmmmm.
      Do I fe... err, Phil enough of a materhumper this late Friday evening? (grin)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @06:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @06:01PM (#1036640)

    I never argued that people shouldn't do those things, just that you shouldn't expect people to do those things for free. Caring is a privilege of the rich! The poor have to "get it how you live". Expecting anyone to go beyond those very human impulses and do better is wishful thinking.