%0 Journal Article %T Evaluation of plasma levels of neopterin and soluble CD40 ligand in patients with acute ischemic stroke in upper Egypt: can they surrogate the severity and functional outcome? %A Abeer A Tony %A Effat AE Tony %A Emad F Kholef %A Wafaa Salah Mohammed %J Archive of "Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment". %D 2019 %R 10.2147/NDT.S177726 %X Inflammation constitutes a major component of ischemic stroke pathology. The prognostic value of ˇ°neopterinˇ± and soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L), as a potential biomarker of ischemic stroke, has been less extensively studied %K acute ischemic stroke %K soluble CD40 ligand %K neopterin %K stroke risk factors %K functional outcome %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390873/