| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - There are no specific diagnostic tests for MS; diagnosis is based on clinical recognition of destructive patterns of central nervous system injury that are produced by the disease. (S. L. Hauser [1994]) Nerve damage may be mediated by cytokines, especially TNF-??, which has been found to be selectively toxic to myelin and to oligodendrocytes in vitro.
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