Interferon Could Be A Key To Preventing Or Treating Multiple Sclerosis

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 18:28 in Health & Medicine

Multiple sclerosis results when the body's own defense system attacks nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. Now scientists have shown that interferon-gamma plays a deciding role in whether immune cells attack and injure the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) in mice.

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