Cerebrospinal fluid immunoglobulin kappa light chain in clinically isolated syndrome and multiple sclerosis.

BACKGROUND: Oligoclonal bands (OCB) are the most widely used CSF test to support the diagnosis of MS and to predict conversion of clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) to multiple sclerosis (MS). Since OCB tests are based on non-quantitative and difficult to standardise techniques, measurement of immun...

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Main Authors: Makbule Senel, Hayrettin Tumani, Florian Lauda, Stefan Presslauer, Rehaneh Mojib-Yezdani, Markus Otto, Johannes Brettschneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3973621?pdf=render