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SUBMITTER: Wang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6090143 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Ying Y Zhu Mingqin M Liu Caiyun C Han Jinming J Lang Wenjuan W Gao Yang Y Lu Chao C Wang Shuang S Hou Shuai S Zheng Nannan N Wang Dong D Chen Yang Y Zhang Yu Y Zhang Hong-Liang HL Zhu Jie J
Frontiers in neurology 20180807
<b>Background:</b> Blood-brain barrier (BBB) pathology exists in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD). However, the clinical use of BBB permeability, such as predicting disease severity of NMOSD, has rarely been studied in a large cohort of patients. <b>Objectives:</b> The current study explored the association between BBB permeability and clinical parameters in order to assess if BBB permeability could be a biomarker to predict disease severity and clinical characteristics of NMOSD. ...[more]