Gadolinium: highlighting MRI: key to revelation? (contrast-enhancing agent used with magnetic resonance imaging)(includes information on whether MS is actually two diseases)

From: Inside MS | Date: June 22, 1990| Author: Shaw, Phyllis | Copyright information

GADOLINIUM HIGHLIGHTING MRI

Clinicians have known for some time that in multiple sclerosis the breakdown of myelin is associated with the breakdown of the blood-brain barrier. This barrier is a "wall" of tiny endothelial cells in the blood vessels that permeate the brain tissue, nourishing it and providing oxygen.

If there is damage to the blood vessel wall, the blood and its contents may start leaking through the endothelial cells, through the blood-brain bar...

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