Journal:
:international journal of health studies
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mehdi khaksari 1 1. dept. of physiology, school of medicine, shahroud university of medical sciences, shahroud, iran.
sayyed hamid zarkesh-esfahani 2 2. dept. of immunology, school of medicine, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran.
masoud etemadifar 3 3. dept. of neurology, school of medicine, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran.
mohsen masjedi 4 4. dept. of immunology, school of medicine, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran.
roqayeh aliyari 5 5. dept. of biostatistics and epidemiology, school of public health, shahroud university of medical sciences, shahroud, iran.
majid rahmati 6* 6. dept. of medical biotechnology, school of medicine, shahroud university of medical sciences, shahroud, iran.
background: multiple sclerosis (ms) and neuromyelitis optica (nmo) are inflammatory and demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system (cns). nk cells are supposed to play an important role in the pathophysiology of ms, but their role in the nmo remains unknown. the aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of different subpopulations of nk cells in the patients with ms and nmo and ...