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[Recent prognosis on etiology and pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 May 2013
Niino Masaaki
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. MS is characterized by axonal degeneration and glial scarring, and the formation of MS lesions is complex, involving cytokines, chemokines, and immunoglobulins. Environmental and genetic risk factors are clearly involved in the occurrence of MS although its etiology and pathophysiology are incompletely understood. In...
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