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Longitudinal study of soluble adhesion molecules in multiple sclerosis

DOI

90

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0

References

1997

Year

Gavin Giovannoni, Mitchell K.P. Lai, J. E. Thorpe, Desmond P. Kidd, V. Chamoun, Alan J. Thompson, DavidH. Miller, M Feldmann, E. J. Thompson
Neurology

Abstract

Patients with MS have elevated levels of sICAM-1, which correlate with gadolinium enhancement on MRI and possibly short-term disease progression. Soluble ICAM-1, and not sVCAM-1, may therefore be suitable as a long-term surrogate marker of disease activity in MS.