Remedy for MS? (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles

Remedy for MS?

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Healthy spinal cord tissue (left) shows a similar number of neurons (magnified in red) as MS-infected spinal cord tissue (right) in mice that have been treated with a specific form of estrogen. Less neurons are found in the spinal cords of mice whose disease went untreated (center).

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Seema Tiwari-Woodruff/UCLA

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