Multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease or autoimmune disorder which affects the central nervous system of an individual; the brain and spinal cord. Though not much is known of the cause of MS, researchers believe that Multiple Sclerosis causes the body’s immune system to attack the myelin sheath. The myelin sheaths are an insulating coating around the nerve cells, consisting of a mixture of proteins and phospholipids, which help to increase the speed at which nerve impulses are conducted. As the…

Multiple Sclerosis is a hard disease to define because it affects everyone differently and can be described differently by everyone who has it. To start off, an autoimmune means that instead of the immune system fighting off diseases and foreign cells in the body…

are diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a unpredictable, sometimes disabling disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that blocks the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and the body. Multiple sclerosis is thought to affect more that 2 million people worldwide. For that many people to be affect to this disease you would think that it might be contagious but it is not and it is not directly inherited. Any one with Multiple Sclerosis often has…

Multiple Sclerosis is a very common disease in people around the world. For instance my beloved grandmother got diagnosed with it in 1958. She had primary progressive MS and it is known to be the worst type of MS out of the four different types. Right off, she started having symptoms such as double vision, problems driving, problems walking, tingling, and weakness in her legs along with getting infections easily. She lived at home and my grandfather hired a special nurse to stay with her all day…

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects about 2.3 million people from around the world and women are affected by it by about two times more than men. For characteristics, MS has three different phenotypic subtypes; progressive relapsing MS, secondary progressive MS, and primary progressive MS. The causes of multiple sclerosis are uncertain, but it is considered an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is where the immune system attacks its own tissue. MS is thought to be responsible for…

Disorder Project, I choose Multiple Sclerosis as my topic. Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, affects about 400,000 people in the United States and over 2.5 million people around the world. (Adelman G, et al. 2013) It can affect any race or gender. I chose this autoimmune disorder because I already had some prior knowledge of what it is and how it affects the host. Its effects can be permanent and it is an incurable disorder. This research really opened my eyes to how Multiple Sclerosis changes every…

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a muscular disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS) which consists of the brain and the spinal cord. This disease was discovered by Dr. Jean Martin Charcot. Eventually, improvements in microscopes helped doctors in the search of understanding the disease. In 1916, a Scottish doctor named James Dawson was able to clearly describe the inflammation after viewing the brain cells of a patient with multiple sclerosis through a microscope. Over the years,…

Mastering Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis is a nasty disease that can leave the person who has the disease immobilized. My dad has Multiple Sclerosis and it makes it very hard for him to walk and get around. It’s hard to see him struggle to walk me down the field for parents night. There is no current cure for Multiple Sclerosis and the only thing doctors recommend are medication to ease the symptoms, but there could be a better way to reverse the disease and stop its progression.…

Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that causes a disruption of the myelin sheath that insulates and protects nerve cells in the brain and spine. It is an abnormal response in the body in which the immune system’s T-cells pass from the bloodstream into the nervous system to attack the myelin sheath around nerve cells. Myelin sheath are essential to the body for the nervous system to function appropriately. They are a fatty white substance that encompass a nerve cell to form an…

environmental risk factors for pediatric multiple sclerosis. Some of the identified environmental risk factors include exposure to certain viruses, vitamin D deficiency, and second-hand tobacco smoke exposure. The main genetic risk factors involved in development of pediatric onset multiple sclerosis (POMC) is variation in Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-DRB1 *1501 and familial history [1]. Genetic Risk Factors Familial susceptibility of multiple sclerosis has been studied on many occasions and…