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Human papilloma virus is associated with breast cancer by Heng, B, Glenn, W K, Ye, Y, Tran, B, Delprado, W, Lutze-Mann, L, Whitaker, N J, Lawson, J S

“…Background: There is increasing evidence that high-risk human papilloma virus (HPV) is involved in cancers in addition to cervical cancer. For example, it is…”
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Koilocytes indicate a role for human papilloma virus in breast cancer by Lawson, J S, Glenn, W K, Heng, B, Ye, Y, Tran, B, Lutze-Mann, L, Whitaker, N J

“…Background: High-risk human papilloma viruses (HPVs) are candidates as causal viruses in breast cancer. The scientific challenge is to determine whether HPVs…”
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Identification of human papillomavirus DNA gene sequences in human breast cancer by KAN, C.-Y, LACOPETTA, B. J, LAWSON, J. S, WHITAKER, N. J

“…Human papilloma viruses (HPVs) are accepted as being carcinogenic in human cervical and anogenital cancers. The suspicion that HPVs may also have a role in…”
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Myelin Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Cells Are Encephalitogenic and Produce Severe Disease in C57BL/6 Mice by Sun, Deming, Whitaker, John N, Huang, Zhigang, Liu, Di, Coleclough, Christopher, Wekerle, Hartmut, Raine, Cedric S

“…Encephalitogenic T cells that mediate experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) are commonly assumed to be exclusively CD4+, but formal proof is still…”
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Management of patients receiving interferon beta-1b for multiple sclerosis : report of a consensus conference by LUBLIN, F. D, WHITAKER, J. N, EIDELMAN, B. H, MILLER, A. E, ARNASON, B. G. W, BURKS, J. S

“…Results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled study in ambulatory patients with relapsing-remitting MS showed that interferon beta-1b reduced the rate of…”
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Linomide in relapsing and secondary progressive MS. Part I : Trial design and clinical results by NOSEWORTHY, J. H, WOLINSKY, J. S, LUBLIN, F. D, WHITAKER, J. N, LINDE, A, GJORSTRUP, P, SULLIVAN, H. C

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Presence of mouse mammary tumour-like virus gene sequences may be associated with morphology of specific human breast cancer by Lawson, J S, Tran, D D, Carpenter, E, Ford, C E, Rawlinson, W D, Whitaker, N J, Delprado, W

“…Background: Mouse mammary tumour virus (MMTV) has a proven role in breast carcinogenesis in wild mice and genetically susceptible in-bred mice. MMTV-like env…”
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Practice parameter: the role of corticosteroids in the management of acute monosymptomatic optic neuritis. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology by Kaufman, D I, Trobe, J D, Eggenberger, E R, Whitaker, J N

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Linomide in relapsing and secondary progressive MS. Part II : MRI results by WOLINSKY, J. S, NARAYANA, P. A, NOSEWORTHY, J. H, LUBLIN, F. D, WHITAKER, J. N, LINDE, A, GJÖRSTRUP, P, SULLIVAN, H. C

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Importance of paraclinical and CSF studies in the diagnosis of MS in patients presenting with partial cervical transverse myelopathy and negative cranial MRI by Bashir, K, Whitaker, J N

“…Patients presenting with isolated partial cervical myelopathy are at high risk for development of multiple sclerosis (MS), especially if lesions suggestive of…”
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Myelin basic protein-specific T lymphocyte lines from MS patients and healthy individuals by PETTE, M, FUJITA, K, KITZE, B, WHITAKER, J. N, ALBERT, E, KAPPOS, L, WEKERLE, H

“…We derived a total of 146 T lymphocyte lines specific for human myelin basic protein (MBP) from the peripheral blood of 20 MS patients and from a control group…”
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Neuropathological changes in scrapie and Alzheimer's disease are associated with increased expression of apolipoprotein E and cathepsin D in astrocytes by DIEDRICH, J. F, MINNIGAN, H, CARP, R. I, WHITAKER, J. N, RACE, R, FREY, W. III, HAASE, A. T

“…With the rationale that the neuropathological similarities between scrapie and Alzheimer's disease reflect convergent pathological mechanisms involving altered…”
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Clinical and laboratory features of primary progressive and secondary progressive MS by BASHIR, K, WHITAKER, J. N

“…To compare the clinical and laboratory features of primary progressive (PP) and secondary progressive (SP) MS, to evaluate the role of CSF and urine myelin…”
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Outcomes assessment in multiple sclerosis clinical trials: a critical analysis by Whitaker, J N, McFarland, H F, Rudge, P, Reingold, S C

“…The feasibility and precision of clinical trials for the treatment of MS must be improved. Subsequent to the approval by the Food and Drug Administration of…”
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Benefit of interferon β-1a on MSFC progression in secondary progressive MS by COHEN, J. A, CUTTER, G. R, TSAO, E. C, WHITAKER, J. N, FISCHER, J. S, GOODMAN, A. D, HEIDENREICH, F. R, KOOIJMANS, M. F, SANDROCK, A. W, RUDICK, R. A, SIMON, J. H, SIMONIAN, N. A

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Cerebrospinal fluid in acute optic neuritis : Experience of the optic neuritis treatment trial by ROLAK, L. A, BECK, R. W, PATY, D. W, TOURTELLOTTE, W. W, WHITAKER, J. N, RUDICK, R. A

“…The Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial (ONTT) is a prospective study of corticosteroid treatment of acute optic neuritis (ON), with subsequent longitudinal…”
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Effects of Pregnancy and Delivery on Disease Activity in Multiple Sclerosis by Whitaker, John N

“…Multiple sclerosis, an organ-specific autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, affects 250,000 to 350,000 persons in the United States. It is at least…”
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Enhanced T cell responsiveness to citrulline-containing myelin basic protein in multiple sclerosis patients by Tranquill, Laura R, Cao, Ligong, Ling, Nicholas C, Kalbacher, Hubert, Martin, Roland M, Whitaker, John N

“…Myelin basic protein (MBP), a candidate autoantigen in multiple sclerosis (MS), exists in different isoforms and charge isomers generated by differential…”
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Metabolic differences between multiple sclerosis subtypes measured by quantitative MR spectroscopy by Pan, J W, Coyle, P K, Bashir, K, Whitaker, J N, Krupp, L B, Hetherington, H P

“…We used quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopic imaging with T1-based image segmentation to evaluate the subtypes of multiple sclerosis (MS) (eight…”
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Specific modulation of T cells and murine experimental allergic encephalomyelitis by monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibodies by Zhou, SR, Whitaker, JN

“…Acetylated peptide 1-9 from human myelin basic protein induces experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in PL/J mice through I-Au and TCR V beta 8.2. Murine mAb…”
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