Mechanistic biology linking traumatic brain injury to multiple sclerosis susceptibility.

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a major, immune-mediated, demyelinating disease and the major cause of non-traumatic disability in young adults. Susceptibility to disease is controlled by a variety of interacting features that include genetic and notably environmental factors. One of these risk factors appears to be the occurrence of traumatic brain injury. In a follow-on to previous analysis of head injury-induced...

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