Teriflunomide and its mechanism of action in multiple sclerosis

A Bar-Or, A Pachner, F Menguy-Vacheron, J Kaplan… - Drugs, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) is challenging: disease-modifying treatments
(DMTs) must both limit unwanted immune responses associated with disease initiation and …

Autoimmune T cell responses in the central nervous system

J Goverman - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2009 - nature.com
Autoreactive T cell responses have a crucial role in central nervous system (CNS) diseases
such as multiple sclerosis. Recent data indicate that CNS autoimmunity can be mediated by …

Modeling the heterogeneity of multiple sclerosis in animals

SB Simmons, ER Pierson, SY Lee, JM Goverman - Trends in immunology, 2013 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the central nervous
system (CNS) manifested with varying clinical course, pathology, and inflammatory patterns …

Animal models of multiple sclerosis—potentials and limitations

E Mix, H Meyer-Rienecker, HP Hartung… - Progress in neurobiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is still the most widely accepted animal
model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Different types of EAE have been developed in order to …

Psoriasis–as an autoimmune disease caused by molecular mimicry

H Valdimarsson, RH Thorleifsdottir… - Trends in …, 2009 - cell.com
Psoriasis is strongly associated with streptococcal throat infection, and patients have
increased occurrence of such infections. Psoriatic lesional T cells are oligoclonal, and T …

Vitamin D in autoimmune, infectious and allergic diseases: a vital player?

TL Van Belle, C Gysemans, C Mathieu - Best practice & research Clinical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone that is acquired via diet or synthesized in the skin upon UV
exposure and needs subsequent hydroxylation steps to become activated as 1, 25 …

MHC class I–restricted myelin epitopes are cross-presented by Tip-DCs that promote determinant spreading to CD8+ T cells

Q Ji, L Castelli, JM Goverman - Nature immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Myelin presentation to T cells in the central nervous system (CNS) sustains inflammation in
multiple sclerosis (MS). CD4+ and CD8+ T cells contribute to MS, but only cells that present …

Neurodegeneration in autoimmune CNS inflammation

J Herz, F Zipp, V Siffrin - Experimental neurology, 2010 - Elsevier
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central
nervous system, in which the myelin sheath has been considered to be the primary target for …

Contribution of astrocyte-derived IL-15 to CD8 T cell effector functions in multiple sclerosis

P Saikali, JP Antel, CL Pittet, J Newcombe… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.aai.org
The contribution of local factors to the activation of immune cells infiltrating the CNS of
patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) remains to be defined. The cytokine IL-15 is pivotal in …

CD8+ T cells and neuronal damage: direct and collateral mechanisms of cytotoxicity and impaired electrical excitability

N Melzer, SG Meuth, H Wiendl - The FASEB Journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells are increasingly recognized as key players in various inflammatory
and degenerative central nervous system (CNS) disorders. CD8+ T cells are believed to …