Viruses and multiple sclerosis

Neuroscientist

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 659-676

  Owens, Gregory P ^a   Gilden, Don ^a   Burgoon, Mark P ^a   Yu, Xiaoli ^a   Bennett, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

antibodies; multiple sclerosis; neuromyelitis optica; oligoclonal bands; recombinant antibody; SSPE; virus

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGOCLONAL BAND; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY; SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN CELL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENCEPHALITIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; MEASLES VIRUS; MOUSE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MURINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; PAPOVAVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PLASMA CELL; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

EID: 82555194272     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858410386615     Document Type: Article

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