spinal cord, and optic nerves. MS involves the immune system damaging myelin — a substance that surrounds and protects nerve fibers. Damaged areas of myelin are referred to as plaques or lesions.

A lumbar puncture (spinal tap) is a common test doctors use to check for signs of MS in your spinal fluid ... is positioned between your spinal cord and the cord’s covering or the meninges ...

A diagnosis of possible MS was entertained ... low and high cervical and thoracic, lumbar and sacral spinal cord were stained with Luxol Fast Blue and Cresyl Violet (LBCV), Palmgren silver ...

Researchers suggest the persistent inflammation from obesity may enhance the detrimental effects of intermittent or sustained ...

How can we use magnetic fields in MS ... what's called plaque. And that's why you do the MRI, is you identify where the plaques are. Are they in the brain or are they in the spinal cord?

The name multiple sclerosis refers to scars (scleroses—better known as plaques or lesions) particularly in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord, which is mainly composed of myelin.

She states symptoms as including: Pedra Lhermitte's Sign (electric shock sensation), facial pain, MS hug, heat intolerance, body jerks, cognitive fog, itching (pruritus), hypersensitivity to light, ...