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Serum levels of lipocalin-2 are elevated at early times in African American relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 15 Mar 2022
Kalinin Sergey, Boullerne Anne I, Feinstein Douglas L
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Previous studies showed that depleting Liver Kinase-B1 (LKB1) from astrocytes increased inflammatory factors lipocalin-2 (LCN2) and osteopontin (OPN) in EAE. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in STK11 (encoding LKB1) is a risk factor for MS, suggesting increased LCN2 or OPN contributes to risk. Serum LCN2 and OPN levels in African American female MS patients were higher than healthy controls, and while...
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