Altered immune function in demyelinative disease.

Immunol Today

Byron H. Waksman is Director, Research Programs, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Published: December 1982

Experimentally induced demyelination has an autoimmune origin in some mouse models and is somehow virally induced in others. In June, invited participants in a Kroc Foundation workshop discussed the damaging mechanisms involved and their relevance to an understanding of multiple sclerosis and human encephalomyelitis.

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