Combined Antiviral-Immunosuppressive Treatment in Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus 1–Sjögren–Associated Myelopathy
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Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus Type-I: A Unique Association with Myelopathy in Sjögren’s Syndrome
Microbes play the most intricate and crucial role in the education of the immune system. Exposure to pathogens elicits specific immune response to clear the infection. After elimination of infectious pathogens, the immune cells undergo apoptosis during the contraction phase, and the remaining cells return to the quiescent memory phase [1]. During the primary and secondary responses, some of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Neurology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0003-9942
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.63.9.1318