Neuroinflammatory Imaging Biomarkers: Relevance to Multiple Sclerosis and its Therapy

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-123

  Tourdias, Thomas ^a,b   Dousset, Vincent ^a,b  

^a University Bordeaux 2   (France)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Contrast agent; Edema; Imaging biomarkers; Inflammation; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD31 ANTIGEN; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; GADOLINIUM; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT; PADGEM PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MIGRATION; EDEMA; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84873103309     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-012-0155-4     Document Type: Review

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