Serum BDNF levels are not reliable correlates of neurodegeneration in MS patients

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-66

  Damasceno, Alfredo ^a   Damasceno, Benito Pereira ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a   Moraes, Adriel Santos ^a   Farias, Alessandro ^a   Santos, Leonilda Maria Barbosa Dos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor Biomarkers; Cognition; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; WHITE MATTER LESION; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920595920     PISSN: 22110348     EISSN: 22110356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2014.11.003     Document Type: Letter

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