Brain, Vol. 125, No. 7, 1425-1427,
July 2002
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Devics disease: bridging the gap between laboratory and clinic
1 Department of Neurology Clinical Research Group for Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology University of Würzburg, Germany 2 Department of Neuroimmunology Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology Martinsried, Germany
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Our first insights into the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis were obtained following developments in histopathology in the late 19th Century. More than a century later, despite the advanced molecular tools that are now available, significant progress in unravelling the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis is still very much dependent on similar approaches. The inaccessibility of the CNS for direct study, and the clinical and genetic heterogeneity of multiple sclerosis combine to make the study of multiple sclerosis difficult to say the least (Compston et al., 1998
). Recently Hans Lassmann and his colleagues Lucchinetti and Brück proposed a classification for multiple sclerosis lesions based on molecular histopathological findings from diagnostic biopsies and autopsies (Lassmann et al., 2001
), an approach similar
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