Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis
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The complex etiology of multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease which is presumed to be a consequence of infiltrating lymphocytes autoreactive to myelin proteins. This is substantiated by several lines of clinical evidence and supported by correlative studies in preclinical models. The development of new therapeutics for MS has been guided by this perspective; however, the pathogenesis of MS has proven to be qui...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Multiple Sclerosis
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2376-0389
DOI: 10.4172/2376-0389.1000214