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SUBMITTER: Collongues N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3105616 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Collongues Nicolas N de Seze Jérôme J
Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders 20110301 2
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by severe attacks of optic neuritis and myelitis, and which, unlike multiple sclerosis (MS), commonly spares the brain in the early stages. NMO used to be considered as a special form of MS. During the past 10 years, however, the two diseases have been shown to be clearly different. NMO is a B-cell-mediated disease associated with anti-aquaporin-4 antibodies in many cases and its pathophysiolo ...[more]