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2017, Scholars' Press (February 23, 2017

The purpose of this book is to develop a novel approach for treating multiple sclerosis (MS). The currently available drugs for treatment of relapsing remitting MS are capable of slowing down the disease progress and ameliorating intensity of relapsed disease, but they are of limited efficacy and do not affect certain portion of patients particularly those suffering from progressive form of MS which has no effective therapies. The present study in this book offers a new pharmacological approach using specific type of DNA polymerase (termed SS6) as a potential treatment of MS.

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