Discovery Of Group Of Proteins Associated With Pediatric MS Could Lead To New Disease Diagnostics

A group of 12 proteins associated with pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) have been discovered for the first time by a team of neurology and pathology researchers at Stony Brook University Medical Center. Led by Lauren Krupp, M.D., Director of the National Pediatric MS Center at SBUMC, the finding could lead to a new panel of diagnostic and prognostic markers in pediatric MS. Their study is reported in the April 2009 issue of the journal Multiple Sclerosis.

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Filed under: Multiple Sclerosis on April 26th, 2009