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Article: Narcolepsy Confirmed as an Auto-Immune Disorder.
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- May 6, 2009
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Byline: Narcolepsy Network
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Narcolepsy Network announced today to its members and supporters newly published research that clearly establishes that narcolepsy is an auto-immune disorder. An autoimmune component has been long suspected in narcolepsy, leading in the mid-1980s to a Japanese study which associated narcolepsy with a specific immune system marker. In a 1998 breakthrough, narcolepsy was tied to the loss of brain cells located in the hypothalamus that produce the hypocretin neurotransmitters, further implicating the immune system This latest discovery moves us closer to understanding what causes this cell ...
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