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For those Googling this to find out whether it's "too much" or "too little", here's a couple of quotes from the article: "A buildup of sodium in the brain dete
by gubby 10y ago
For those Googling this to find out whether it's "too much" or "too little", here's a couple of quotes from the article:
"A buildup of sodium in the brain detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be a biomarker for the degeneration of nerve cells that occurs in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS)"
and
"In the early-stage RRMS patients, sodium MRI revealed abnormally high concentrations of sodium in specific brain regions (...). In the advanced-stage RRMS patients, abnormally high sodium accumulation was widespread throughout the whole brain, including normal appearing brain tissue."
(RR = Relapsing Remitting)
- raverbashing 10y agoWhat would be interesting to note is how is this accumulating (that is, in which form) Is there some process that's causing the formation of an insoluble salt or other insoluble substance containing sodium? Or does this has to do with some misregulation of some process? Did they try dietary sodium restriction to see if it had an impact?