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Mutations in the gene for toll-like receptor 4 and multiple sclerosis.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jan 2003
Reindl M, Lutterotti A, Ingram J, Schanda K, Gassner C, Deisenhammer F, Berger T, Lorenz E
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system with heterogeneous pathological features, disease courses and genetical backgrounds. In this study we determined whether genetic variants of toll-like receptor (TLR) 4, which confer substantial differences in the inflammation elicited by bacterial lipopolysaccharide, are related to the development of MS. We found no...
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