Autologous Bone Marrow Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis

Regenerating the Immune System to Halt Multiple Sclerosis
“Eighty percent of MS patients are free of disease over the long-term, or even forever, after they receive an autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant, . . . . The treatment is not without risk. First, bone marrow, containing stem cells that generate immune cells for the blood, is harvested from a patient. Then the immune system must be totally destroyed with various chemotherapy drugs, ablating the cells in the bone marrow that produce immune cells, including a type of T cell that attacks the central nervous system in MS. Patients then get their blood stem cells put back in, which can be used by the body to regenerate the immune system, without the autoreactive cells that attack the myelin sheath of neurons.” MORE WITH VIDEO
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