oligoclonal bands

oligoclonal bands
discrete bands of immunoglobulins with decreased electrophoretic mobility; their appearance in electrophoretograms of cerebrospinal fluid when absent in the serum is a sign of possible multiple sclerosis or other diseases of the central nervous system.

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