Multiple sclerosis: immune system molecule expression in the central nervous system

CS Raine - Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental …, 1994 - academic.oup.com
The fundamental message emerging from immunologic and immunopathologic analyses of
the brain and spinal cord in multiple sclerosis (MS) is that during inflammation, the central …

Cerebrospinal fluid markers reveal intrathecal inflammation in progressive multiple sclerosis

M Komori, A Blake, M Greenwood, YC Lin… - Annals of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The management of complex patients with neuroimmunological diseases is
hindered by an inability to reliably measure intrathecal inflammation. Currently implemented …

B cells and multiple sclerosis

D Franciotta, M Salvetti, F Lolli, B Serafini… - The Lancet …, 2008 - thelancet.com
Clonal expansion of B cells and the production of oligoclonal IgG in the brain and
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have long been interpreted …

B cells populating the multiple sclerosis brain mature in the draining cervical lymph nodes

JNH Stern, G Yaari, JA Vander Heiden… - Science translational …, 2014 - science.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS)
characterized by autoimmune-mediated demyelination and neurodegeneration. The CNS of …

Increased interleukin-6 mRNA expression in blood and cerebrospinal fluid mononuclear cells in multiple sclerosis

V Navikas, D Matusevicius, M Söderström… - Journal of …, 1996 - Elsevier
The increased intrathecal production of immunoglobulins within the cerebrospinal fluid
(CSF) compartment commonly observed in multiple sclerosis (MS) implicates participation of …

Involvement of CD8+ T Cells in Multiple Sclerosis

M Salou, B Nicol, A Garcia, DA Laplaud - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system
characterized by focal demyelination patches associated with inflammatory infiltrates …

Early adaptive immune activation detected in monozygotic twins with prodromal multiple sclerosis

E Beltrán, LA Gerdes, J Hansen… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disabling disease of the CNS. Inflammatory features of MS
include lymphocyte accumulations in the CNS and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The preclinical …

Multiplexed imaging of immune cells in staged multiple sclerosis lesions by mass cytometry

V Ramaglia, S Sheikh-Mohamed, K Legg, C Park… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by demyelinated and inflammatory lesions in the
brain and spinal cord that are highly variable in terms of cellular content. Here, we used …

Phenotypic and functional characterization of T cells in white matter lesions of multiple sclerosis patients

GP van Nierop, MM van Luijn, SS Michels… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
T cells are considered pivotal in the pathology of multiple sclerosis (MS), but their function
and antigen specificity are unknown. To unravel the role of T cells in MS pathology, we …

Tertiary lymphoid organ development coincides with determinant spreading of the myelin-specific T cell response

S Kuerten, A Schickel, C Kerkloh, MS Recks… - Acta …, 2012 - Springer
While the role of T cells has been studied extensively in multiple sclerosis (MS), the
pathogenic contribution of B cells has only recently attracted major attention, when it was …