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 [...]
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Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have identified a gene associated with narcolepsy, a disorder that causes disabling daytime sleepiness, sleep attacks, irresistible bouts of sleep that can strike at any time, and disturbed sleep at night.
The gene has a known role in the immune system, which strongly suggests that autoimmunity, in [...]