Carbon monoxide protects against paralysis in MS mice
Friday, January 26, 2007
Ângelo A. Chora et. al. are reporting in the Journal of Clinical Investigation this week that carbon monoxide (CO) and the heme oxygenase-1 protein protect against the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the related mouse model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE).
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, inflammatory disease that affects the central nervous...