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Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neuroinflammation in children with hydrocephalus and shunt malfunction.

Carolyn A HarrisDiego M MoralesRooshan ArshadJames P McAllisterDavid D Limbrick
Published in: Fluids and barriers of the CNS (2021)
Non-obstructive cases are reported here to accompany significantly higher CSF cytokine and MMP protein levels compared to obstructive cases for IL-10, IL-6, IL-8, MMP-7 and MMP-9. A closer examination of the definition of obstruction and the role neuroinflammation plays in creating shunt obstruction in hydrocephalic patients is suggested.
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