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Estrogen receptor gene polymorphism in Japanese patients with multiple sclerosis.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 1 Oct 2000
Niino M, Kikuchi S, Fukazawa T, Yabe I, Tashiro K
Abstract excerpt
Estrogen has been reported to have immunosuppressive functions, and to inhibit the progression of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Since estrogen shows its biological effects via estrogen receptors (ER), we investigate the possible role of ER genes (ERG) in the pathogenesis of MS. PvuII and XbaI polymorphisms in ERG were detected by PCR-RFLP from the DNA...
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