Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System

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Description: Disorders caused by cellular or humoral immune responses primarily directed towards nervous system autoantigens. The immune response may be directed towards specific tissue components (e.g., myelin) and may be limited to the central nervous system (e.g., MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) or the peripheral nervous system (e.g., GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME).

Also Known As:

Autoimmune Diseases, Nervous System; Autoimmune Diseases, Neurologic; Autoimmune Disorders of the Nervous System; Autoimmune Disorders, Nervous System; Autoimmune Nervous System Diseases; Immune Diseases, Nervous System; Nervous System Immune Diseases; Nervous System Immune Disorders; Neurologic Autoimmune Diseases; Autoimmune Disease, Neurologic; Disease, Neurologic Autoimmune; Diseases, Neurologic Autoimmune; Neurologic Autoimmune Disease; Immune Disorders, Nervous System; Nervous System Autoimmune Diseases

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1.	Experimental Autoimmune Neuritis
2.	Atherosclerosis (Atheroma)
3.	Inborn Genetic Diseases (Disease, Hereditary)
4.	Stiff-Person Syndrome (Stiff Man Syndrome)
5.	Syndrome

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System:

1.	Liposomes (Liposome)IBA 11/01/1993 - "Selective suppression of phagocytic cell function by drug-containing liposomes may hold promise as a novel treatment of demyelinating autoimmune diseases of the nervous system." Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	AntigensIBA 07/01/2001 - "Treatment of experimental autoimmune disorders of the nervous system with high doses of glucocorticosteroids (GC) or with administration of the specific antigen is effective and associated with marked T cell apoptosis in situ. " 05/01/2000 - "TNF-alpha has been implicated as a potentially detrimental cytokine in autoimmune disorders of the nervous system and has been reported to be elevated in antigen-specific therapy of experimental autoimmune neuritis (EAN) in vivo. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
3.	ChemokinesIBA 10/01/2008 - "The function of chemokines in nervous system autoimmune diseases has been long recognized. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
4.	CytokinesIBA 10/01/2002 - "In autoimmune disorders of the nervous system such as the Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), and the corresponding animal model, experimental autoimmune neuritis (EAN), proinflammatory cytokines augment nerve infiltration by T-cells and contribute to macrophage-mediated demyelination. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
5.	Cell Adhesion MoleculesIBA 12/01/1999 - "[Cell adhesion molecules and autoimmune nervous system diseases, with special reference to beta 1 integrin molecule and its signal molecule Cas-L]" Order ALL the reference details at left...
6.	Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (Tumor Necrosis Factor)IBA 05/01/2000 - "TNF-alpha has been implicated as a potentially detrimental cytokine in autoimmune disorders of the nervous system and has been reported to be elevated in antigen-specific therapy of experimental autoimmune neuritis (EAN) in vivo. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
7.	Levamisole (Decaris)FDA Link 08/01/1977 - "[Levamisole--an attempt at immunomodulating treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune nervous system diseases]" Order ALL the reference details at left...
8.	Immunoglobulins (Immunoglobulin)IBA 01/01/1995 - "[Therapy with immunoglobulins in neurologic autoimmune diseases. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
9.	DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)IBA 01/01/2001 - "Particular attention is paid to the development of national criteria for brain death, a concept of structural and functional levels of the vascular system, that of brain pathology in atherosclerosis and essential hypertension, rapid methods for evaluating neuronal apoptosis, a new method for diagnosing prionic diseases caused by a classical viruses, and a new method for histochemical diagnosis of the degree of reparative peripheral nerve processes in polyneuropathies and to the discovery of two new hereditary nervous system diseases, to direct DNA diagnosis of torsion dystonia, Wilson-Konovalov disease, Friedreich's disease, to the setting up of a national representative family register and DNA data bank for monogenous hereditary diseases, to the development of indications for craniocerebral bypass of cerebral vessels in multiple occlusions of great cerebral arteries and indications for programmable plasmapheresis in a number of autoimmune diseases of the nervous system, to the development of rehabilitative programmes for stabilogram biocontrol, markers of an active embologenous atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries supplying blood to the brain, etc." Order ALL the reference details at left...
10.	Complement System Proteins (Complement)IBA 01/01/1988 - "Terminal complement complexes (SC5b-9) in cerebrospinal fluid in autoimmune nervous system diseases." Order ALL the reference details at left...

Therapies and Procedures

1.	Bone Marrow Transplantation (Transplantation, Bone Marrow) 03/15/1992 - "This approach of combining immunoablation and reconstitution with autologous bone marrow transplantation may be applicable in the treatment of life-threatening neurologic autoimmune diseases." Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	Plasmapheresis 01/01/2001 - "Particular attention is paid to the development of national criteria for brain death, a concept of structural and functional levels of the vascular system, that of brain pathology in atherosclerosis and essential hypertension, rapid methods for evaluating neuronal apoptosis, a new method for diagnosing prionic diseases caused by a classical viruses, and a new method for histochemical diagnosis of the degree of reparative peripheral nerve processes in polyneuropathies and to the discovery of two new hereditary nervous system diseases, to direct DNA diagnosis of torsion dystonia, Wilson-Konovalov disease, Friedreich's disease, to the setting up of a national representative family register and DNA data bank for monogenous hereditary diseases, to the development of indications for craniocerebral bypass of cerebral vessels in multiple occlusions of great cerebral arteries and indications for programmable plasmapheresis in a number of autoimmune diseases of the nervous system, to the development of rehabilitative programmes for stabilogram biocontrol, markers of an active embologenous atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries supplying blood to the brain, etc." Order ALL the reference details at left...

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