w The authors sincerely thank the patients and their parents for the help and willingness to take part in this study.This work was supported by grants from National Key Clinical Specialty Discipline Construction Program and Key Clinical Specialty Discipline Construction Program of Fujian and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81125009 and No. 3091110488).
Background: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and multiple sclerosis (MS) are autoimmune demyelinating diseases of the central nerve system, lnterleukin-7 (IL-7) and interleukin-7 receptor alpha (IL-7Rα) were prove...
This research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China (No.30471548). and "fifteen" national scientific technology study scheme (No. 2004 BA719A)
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