October 2024

MS: This increase in Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Appears to be Connected to the Spread of Lesions Across the Brain

In this MEDtalk, Lina Moschoula Passali focuses on blood-brain barrier permeability in patients with optic neuritis, a common early symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). The study, presented at ECTRIMS 2024, showed that blood-brain barrier permeability in the normally occurring white matter is increased in patients who already meet MS diagnostic criteria, but not before. This increase in permeability of the blood-brain barrier appears to be related to the spread of lesions across the brain.

Get access

If you are a doctor or other health professional, you can access the entire article by creating a profile on BestPractice Nordic.

Register
Already a user? Login

Back to top

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.

Necessary

Always Enabled

Non Necessary

Analytics

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

Cookie	Duration	Description
_ga	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid	1 day	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.

Preferences

Preference cookies are used to store user preferences to provide content that is customized and convenient for the users, like the language of the website or the location of the visitor.

Cookie	Duration	Description
_gat_UA-43794127-5	1 minute	This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

MS: This increase in Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability Appears to be Connected to the Spread of Lesions Across the Brain

Get access

Related