CSF

Physiology.

1. cerebrospinal fluid.

CSF

abbreviation for

1. physiol cerebrospinal fluid
2. immunol colony-stimulating factor

Example Sentences

That level will rise when water is poured into the bucket faster—if the brain pulls more CSF in during sleep.

From Science Magazine

Two decades ago, Dalmau says, detecting those autoantibodies in the CSF of several young women “was a eureka moment.”

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The women’s CSF contained never-before-seen antibodies targeting brain tissue.

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Diagnosis can be tricky, Dalmau notes: All anti-NMDAR encephalitis patients have antibodies in their CSF, but not all have them in their blood, leading to false negative diagnoses if only serum is tested.

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Yet another wrinkle is that commonly used commercial assays, which detect the interaction of antibodies with their protein targets in cells, sometimes fail to find CASPR2 and LGI1 antibodies in the CSF of patients with these types of autoimmune encephalitis.

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