{"id":166066,"date":"2023-06-19T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/pregnancy-hormone-estriol-may-reverse-myelin-damage-in-multiple-sclerosis"},"modified":"2023-06-19T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:27:00","slug":"pregnancy-hormone-estriol-may-reverse-myelin-damage-in-multiple-sclerosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/pregnancy-hormone-estriol-may-reverse-myelin-damage-in-multiple-sclerosis","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy Hormone Estriol May Reverse Myelin Damage in Multiple Sclerosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pregnancy-hormone-estriol-may-reverse-myelin-damage-in-multiple-sclerosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Treating a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS) with the pregnancy hormone estriol could reverse myelin breakdown in the brain\u2019s cortex, a primary area affected in MS.<\/p>\n<p>MS results in inflammation that damage the myelin coating around nerve fibers in the brain\u2019s cortex, leading to disability worsening. Current MS treatments only target inflammation and can\u2019t repair myelin damage.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new study found that estriol not only prevented brain atrophy but also induced remyelination, suggesting it could repair MS-induced damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Treating a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS) with the pregnancy hormone estriol could reverse myelin breakdown in the brain\u2019s cortex, a primary area affected in MS. MS results in inflammation that damage the myelin coating around nerve fibers in the brain\u2019s cortex, leading to disability worsening. Current MS treatments only target inflammation and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}