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| | "SUBACUTE MYELO-OPTIC NEUROPATHY IS NOT A SPECIAL FORM OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS", ''The Lancet'', Volume 320, Issue 8292, 31 July 1982, Page 267, Reisaku Kono, Yoshigoro Kuroiwa | | "SUBACUTE MYELO-OPTIC NEUROPATHY IS NOT A SPECIAL FORM OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS", ''The Lancet'', Volume 320, Issue 8292, 31 July 1982, Page 267, Reisaku Kono, Yoshigoro Kuroiwa |
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| − | :::"Several workers have produced in dogs and other animals givenoral clioquinol, pathological - changes compatible with those of MON. On the one hand, comparable results have never been achieved in animals inoculated with the so-called Inoue virus, and the very existence of this virus has been questioned." {{unsigned|RickD}}--16:35, 12 January 2009 | + | :::"Several workers have produced in dogs and other animals givenoral clioquinol, pathological - changes compatible with those of MON. On the one hand, comparable results have never been achieved in animals inoculated with the so-called Inoue virus, and the very existence of this virus has been questioned." |
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| | + | :::Reisaku Kono was the Japanese government authority on SMON. He wrote 2 other papers besides this 1982 article that are important to understanding etiology of SMON. The U.S. 1975 government appears to have not referenced them and was probably written without an understanding of the Japanese Government's position: |
| | + | :::*"THE S.M.O.N. VIRUS THEORY", ''The Lancet'', Volume 306, Issue 7930, 23 August 1975, Pages 370-371, Reisaku Kono |
| | + | :::*"RELATION BETWEEN SUBACUTE MYELO-OPTIC NEUROPATHY (S.M.O.N.) AND CLIOQUINOL: NATIONWIDE SURVEY", ''The Lancet'', Volume 301, Issue 7796, 27 January 1973, Pages 171-173 |
| | + | Kimihiro Nakae, Shun-Ichi Yamamoto, Itsuzo Shigematsu, Reisaku Kono --[[User:RickD|RickD]] 19:46, 12 January 2009 (EST) |