Interleukin-6 is expressed at high levels in the CNS in Lyme neuroborreliosis

Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 147-152

  Pachner, A R ^a,d   Amemiya, K ^b   Delaney, E ^a   O'Neill, T ^c   Hughes, C A N ^a   Zhang, W F ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN DISEASE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; LYME DISEASE; MALAISE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY;

EID: 0030877314     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.49.1.147     Document Type: Article

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