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Association of Multiple sclerosis with Other Autoimmune Diseases

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Multiple Sclerosis Immunology

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Since its first comprehensive clinico-pathological description by Charcot, Multiple sclerosis (MS) has remained a mysterious clinical entity and has represented a fascination to scientists and clinicians of the most diverse disciplines. With an incompletely known pathogenesis and aetiology, it has given rise to numerous theories including the more plausible ones of infection, autoimmunity and primary neurodegenerative disease to the more daring ones of vascular disease, psychological abnormality or even neurocristopathy.

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Manouchehrinia, A., Edwards, L., Constantinescu, C. (2013). Association of Multiple sclerosis with Other Autoimmune Diseases. In: Yamamura, T., Gran, B. (eds) Multiple Sclerosis Immunology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7953-6_16

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