Subject chronic inflammatory responses

Since autoantibodies are detectable in healthy subjects it is not possible to say whether or not their increased detection in CNS degenerative and inflammatory disease is a result of a new primary response or the stimulation of preexisting B-cell clones by the macrophage transfer of antigen from the brain. In a chronic inflammatory disease with a suspected autoimmune aetiology such as multiple sclerosis there has been a failure to identify a primary pathogenic autoantigen, but many... 

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