Utility of CSF Cytokine/Chemokines as Markers of Active Intrathecal Inflammation: Comparison of Demyelinating, Anti-NMDAR and Enteroviral Encephalitis.

Utility of CSF Cytokine/Chemokines as Markers of Active Intrathecal Inflammation: Comparison of Demyelinating, Anti-NMDAR and Enteroviral Encephalitis.

BACKGROUND:Despite the discovery of CSF and serum diagnostic autoantibodies in autoimmune encephalitis, there are still very limited CSF biomarkers for diagnostic and monitoring purposes in children with inflammatory or autoimmune brain disease. The cause of encephalitis is unknown in up to a third...

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Main Authors: Kavitha Kothur, Louise Wienholt, Shekeeb S Mohammad, Esther M Tantsis, Sekhar Pillai, Philip N Britton, Cheryl A Jones, Rajeshwar R Angiti, Elizabeth H Barnes, Timothy Schlub, Sushil Bandodkar, Fabienne Brilot, Russell C Dale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5004915?pdf=render

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