High-dimensional investigation of the cerebrospinal fluid to explore and monitor CNS immune responses

M Heming, AL Börsch, H Wiendl, G Meyer zu Hörste - Genome Medicine, 2022 - Springer
The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) features a unique immune cell composition and is in constant
contact with the brain borders, thus permitting insights into the brain to diagnose and monitor …

Integrated single cell analysis of blood and cerebrospinal fluid leukocytes in multiple sclerosis

D Schafflick, CA Xu, M Hartlehnert, M Cole… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protects the central nervous system (CNS) and analyzing CSF
aids the diagnosis of CNS diseases, but our understanding of CSF leukocytes remains …

Transcriptomic and clonal characterization of T cells in the human central nervous system

JL Pappalardo, L Zhang, MK Pecsok, K Perlman… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
T cells provide critical immune surveillance to the central nervous system (CNS), and the
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is thought to be a main route for their entry. Further …

High-dimensional single-cell mapping of central nervous system immune cells reveals distinct myeloid subsets in health, aging, and disease

D Mrdjen, A Pavlovic, FJ Hartmann, B Schreiner… - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Individual reports suggest that the central nervous system (CNS) contains multiple immune
cell types with diverse roles in tissue homeostasis, immune defense, and neurological …

Single-cell RNA and protein profiling of immune cells from the mouse brain and its border tissues

I Scheyltjens, H Van Hove, K De Vlaminck… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Brain–immune cross-talk and neuroinflammation critically shape brain physiology in health
and disease. A detailed understanding of the brain immune landscape is essential for …

A single-cell analysis framework allows for characterization of CSF leukocytes and their tissue of origin in multiple sclerosis

P Ostkamp, M Deffner… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Peripheral central nervous system (CNS)–infiltrating lymphocytes are a hallmark of
relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM) not only …

Multiomic spatial landscape of innate immune cells at human central nervous system borders

R Sankowski, P Süß, A Benkendorff, C Böttcher… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The innate immune compartment of the human central nervous system (CNS) is highly
diverse and includes several immune-cell populations such as macrophages that are …

Expression profiling of cerebrospinal fluid identifies dysregulated antiviral mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

M Ban, D Bredikhin, Y Huang, MJ Bonder, K Katarzyna… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Despite the overwhelming evidence that multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease,
relatively little is known about the precise nature of the immune dysregulation underlying the …

CSF-resident CD4+ T-cells display a distinct gene expression profile with relevance to immune surveillance and multiple sclerosis

J Hrastelj, R Andrews, S Loveless, J Morgan… - Brain …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The CNS has traditionally been considered an immune privileged site, but is now
understood to have a system of immune surveillance, predominantly involving CD4+ T-cells …

A pathogenic and clonally expanded B cell transcriptome in active multiple sclerosis

A Ramesh, RD Schubert… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Central nervous system B cells have several potential roles in multiple sclerosis (MS):
secretors of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines, presenters of autoantigens to T …