Epilepsy and the immune system.
Open Access
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 57 (12), 1689-1692
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.57.12.1689
Abstract
THE FINDING of immune system activation in patients with a seizure disorder has lead to the suggestion that immune mechanisms may play a role in the pathogenesis of some forms of epilepsy.1 For a long time, such theories lacked an experimental basis. The results of recent studies, especially in patients with Rasmussen encephalitis, have given new information about the possible relation between epileptic disorders and the immune system.Keywords
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