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Multiple sclerosis is not a disease of the immune system.
The Quarterly review of biology - 1 Dec 2011
Corthals Angelique P
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis is a complex neurodegenerative disease, thought to arise through autoimmunity against antigens of the central nervous system. The autoimmunity hypothesis fails to explain why genetic and environmental risk factors linked to the disease in one population tend to be unimportant in other populations. Despite great advances in documenting the cell and molecular mechanisms underlying MS...
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