Research progress of traditional Chinese medicine in promoting remyelination of multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis(MS)is one of the most common non traumatic causes of disability in young people.But the current clinical treatment measures cannot prevent the progress of the disease and have many adverse reactions.It is urgent to develop new effective clinical treatment measures to improve the clinical symptoms and prognosis of MS patients.Remyelination can provide benefits for the whole course of MS.Promoting remyelination is a promising treatment for MS.Traditional Chinese medicine has the characteristics of multi-components,multi-channels and multi-targets.It has shown a good effect of promoting remyelination in preclinical studies of MS.In this paper,the role and mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine in promoting the remyelination of MS were reviewed for the first time,so as to provide reference for the research and treatment of MS.
Traditional Chinese medicineMultiple sclerosisRemyelinationOligodendrocyte precursor cellsNeural stem cellsMechanism