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Originally Posted by kicker
I think (THINK) the give rats and Mice not MS, but a disease (stating with e??) and from knowledge they gave it to them and resulting behaviors work on it. It's not MS, mice aren't humans so us MSers don't alway benefit as benefits of cure not transferable. Hope we do this time.
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What you are referring to is called Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis.(EAE) It is a disease that is induced into mice and although it mimics MS in humans it is VERY different. They have been using the EAE mouse model for decades in MS research and for decades there has not been any treatments that have worked in that poor mouse that have eventually been beneficial to human MS patients.
Back in the mid 90's, my wife was enrolled in a MS clinical trial for a drug that stopped and reversed MS in the "mouse". After about a year into the trial, the high dose of the drug caused a fatal heart attack in a patient and the trial was quickly halted and abandoned.
The time span for a discovery of this nature and when it may be trialled on humans is about 10 years!
Harry