Osteopontin (OPN) as a CSF and blood biomarker for multiple sclerosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Elmira Agah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Students’ Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, NeuroImmunology Research Association (NIRA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8541-8075

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• Arshia Zardoui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arshia Zardoui, Amene Saghazadeh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Students’ Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, NeuroImmunology Research Association (NIRA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

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• Amene Saghazadeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arshia Zardoui, Amene Saghazadeh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID), Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Mona Ahmadi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Iranian Center of Neurological Research (ICNR), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Abbas Tafakhori ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a_tafakhori@sina.tums.ac.ir (AT); rezaei_nima@tums.ac.ir (NR)

  Affiliations NeuroImmunology Research Association (NIRA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran, Iranian Center of Neurological Research (ICNR), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Nima Rezaei

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a_tafakhori@sina.tums.ac.ir (AT); rezaei_nima@tums.ac.ir (NR)

  Affiliations Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID), Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

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