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** Protein is usually elveated.
 
** Protein is usually elveated.
 
* Histologically, the disease presents as a severe, chronic, destructive lymphocytic and histiocytic polyradiculoneuritis.
 
* Histologically, the disease presents as a severe, chronic, destructive lymphocytic and histiocytic polyradiculoneuritis.
* Pathogenesis not completely understood, but considered to be caused by a T-lymphocyte mediated response to myelin, followed by destruction of myelin and axons by macrophages
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* Pathogenesis is not completely understood, but considered to be a T-lymphocyte mediated response to myelin, followed by destruction of myelin and axons by macrophages
 
* Disease appears similar to:
 
* Disease appears similar to:
 
** Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), an autoimmune demyelinating diease in humans
 
** Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), an autoimmune demyelinating diease in humans

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