Multiple sclerosis, the prototype of demyelinating disease in man, is a relapsing-remitting or progressively disabling disease of unknown cause. The first pathological descriptions of the disease ...

Columnist Ben Hofmeister, while searching for motivation in a life with multiple sclerosis, feels he just needs to get around to it.

Multiple sclerosis is considered primarily a T cell-mediated disease in which autoreactive myelin-specific T cells are activated by antigen-presenting cells (APCs), including myeloid cells.