Narcolepsy Confirmed as an Auto-Immune Disorder.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service | May 6, 2009 | Copyright

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 ...

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