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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Neuroscience study

A pregnancy hormone may help repair the damage to nerves caused by multiple sclerosis, Canadian research suggests.The Journal of Neuroscience study, by the University of Calgary, may explain why MS tends to go into remission while women are pregnant. Working on mice, the researchers found the hormone - prolactin - encourages production of myelin, the fatty substance that protects nerve cells

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