Systemic and cerebrospinal fluid immune and complement activation in Ugandan children and adolescents with long‐standing nodding syndrome: A case‐control study

Systemic and cerebrospinal fluid immune and complement activation in Ugandan children and adolescents with long‐standing nodding syndrome: A case‐control study

Abstract Objective Nodding syndrome is a poorly understood epileptic encephalopathy characterized by a unique seizure type—head nodding—and associated with Onchocerca volvulus infection. We hypothesized that altered immune activation in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma of children with noddi...

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Main Authors: Rodney Ogwang, Dennis Muhanguzi, Kioko Mwikali, Ronald Anguzu, Joe Kubofcik, Thomas B. Nutman, Mark Taylor, Charles R. Newton, Angela Vincent, Andrea L. Conroy, Kevin Marsh, Richard Idro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-06-01
Series:Epilepsia Open
Subjects:
chemokine
cytokine
Epilepsy
neuroinflammation
Northern Uganda
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12463

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