Article
Association of HLA and multiple sclerosis.
Behring Institute Mitteilungen - 1 Jul 1994
Martin R, Vogt A B, Kropshofer H, Lichtenfels R
Abstract excerpt
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Although the cause of MS is still unknown, it is considered an autoimmune disease based on the composition of inflammatory infiltrates in the brain and on parallels with a T-cell-mediated animal model of demyelinati...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental
- HLA Antigens
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DR2 Antigen
- Humans
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Protein Structure, Secondary