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Arch Neurol. 2000;57:22-24.

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WHAT IS multiple sclerosis (MS)? Virtually every text book of neurology lists MS among the "demyelinating" diseases, and it has classically been regarded as a prototype of these disorders. Descriptions of the neuropathological abnormalities in MS emphasize the loss of myelin, and its diagnosis rests in part on the demonstration, via imaging and/or evoked potentials, of evidence of demyelination.

Demyelination of axons that maintain their structural integrity and the response of neurons to demyelination of axons appear to provide at least a partial basis for the remissions that are commonly observed in MS. In the relapsing-remitting type of MS, exacerbations are followed (usually within weeks to a few months) by remissions in which there is clinical recovery. Clinical deficits in MS are, in part, a result of interruption of conduction in demyelinated axons. Clinical recovery appears to reflect the restoration of secure impulse conduction in some demyelinated axons that acquire . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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