In mice with MS-like disease, maraviroc reduced damage

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In mice with an MS-like disease, maraviroc reduced immune cell buildup, damage to nerve coverings, and disease worsening.

What They Found

Researchers studied mice whose cells that make nerve coverings had an overactive cell signal. Their MS-like disease worsened in the brain and spinal cord. Blocking an immune signal kept certain immune cells from entering these areas and stopped disease worsening. Moving a group of immune cells into other mice's brains caused damage to nerve coverings. Maraviroc reduced immune cell buildup, nerve covering damage, and disease worsening in the mice.

Who Should Care and Why

This study was in mice with an MS-like disease, not people with MS. It focused on early damage to nerve coverings. The researchers studied how cells that make those coverings affected the immune response. They also tested ways to interrupt that response. The findings may help explain early damage in this mouse model, but the study did not test a treatment in people.

Important Considerations

You should know these results come from an animal study. The abstract does not say how many mice were studied. It does not show whether maraviroc helps people with MS.

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