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319532 tn?1250988576

Blood pressure drug reverses symptoms of MS like disease in mice

Just want to know what people think about this discovery...http://www.nationalmssociety.org/research/research-news/news-detail/index.aspx?nid=1941
Does this suggest a vascular component to MS?
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319532 tn?1250988576
Thanks for the link....sheds even more insight into the link b/n MS and high bp
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just google lisinopril and M.S. as every time I post the link it leaves off the end:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1739353/cheap_blood_pressure_drug_could_
treat_multiple_sclerosis/
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sorry it cut the link off

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1739353/cheap_blood_pressure_drug_could_treat_multiple_sclerosis/
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319532 tn?1250988576
Here's a statement from another website (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jv6nh30O0e7ydhqQO0GGldkpxnkw)......."Strikingly, if it was given after the mice developed full-blown symptoms, lisinopril reversed their paralysis."

This is the second real promising discovery i've seen in the past week or so. I really hope this EAE in mice is close enough to human MS to allow for similar results
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My brother called me from U.K. today and told me that there was an article in the daily newspaper about Lisinopril and MS.  I googled it:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1739353/cheap_blood_pressure_drug_could_treat_multiple_sclerosis/



This is interesting news.

Marcie
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319532 tn?1250988576
Yeah i hope so also...But am really interested in how angiotensin is involved in the inflammatory process which cud suggest a vascular component to MS. The one thing that was mentioned is that it stimulates the production of immuno-suppresant T-cells or regulator T-Cells .
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279234 tn?1363105249
This is really interesting. It would be wonderful if there is a connection between MS and angiotensin and they could treat with a pill. Let's hope that it will be safe and does the same thing that it did in mice.



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