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Epidemiological, clinical and immunological aspects of neuromyelitis optica (NMO).
Danish medical journal - 1 Oct 2013
Asgari Nasrin
Abstract excerpt
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease (IDD) of the central nervous system (CNS) and probably the most common non-multiple sclerosis (MS) CNS IDD. Serum immunoglobulin G autoantibodies have been identified in the majority of NMO patients with the water channel aquaporin-4 (AQP4) as their main target autoantigen. Previous studies have suggested ethnicity-based prevalence differences of...
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