... inflammatory demyelinating disorder, has gained increasing interest since the discovery of serum NMO-IgG autoantibodies targeting the aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channel protein [1, 2]. The detection ... AL, SJ, FDP, BK, RE, FD, FAE, MS, PK, JD, WK, TB and MR participated in serum and data collection. SM, VG, KS and MR wrote the initial manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final ... Fisher’s exact test and Chi-square test as appropriate. Correlation of parameters was analyzed with Spearman’s non-parametric correlation. Statistical significance was defined as two-sided p-value...