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Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System

"Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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).


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 48 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2014
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.