The movers and shapers in immune privilege of the CNS

B Engelhardt, P Vajkoczy, RO Weller - Nature immunology, 2017 - nature.com
Discoveries leading to an improved understanding of immune surveillance of the central
nervous system (CNS) have repeatedly provoked dismissal of the existence of immune …

Thinking outside the box: non-canonical targets in multiple sclerosis

L Bierhansl, HP Hartung, O Aktas, T Ruck… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system that
causes demyelination, axonal degeneration and astrogliosis, resulting in progressive …

CD4+ T cells contribute to neurodegeneration in Lewy body dementia

D Gate, E Tapp, O Leventhal, M Shahid, TJ Nonninger… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Recent studies indicate that the adaptive immune system plays a role in Lewy body
dementia (LBD). However, the mechanism regulating T cell brain homing in LBD is …

The anatomy and immunology of vasculature in the central nervous system

P Mastorakos, D McGavern - Science immunology, 2019 - science.org
Barriers between circulation and the central nervous system (CNS) play a key role in the
development and modulation of CNS immune responses. Structural variations in the …

The contribution of astrocytes to the neuroinflammatory response in multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

R Brambilla - Acta neuropathologica, 2019 - Springer
Neuroinflammation is the coordinated response of the central nervous system (CNS) to
threats to its integrity posed by a variety of conditions, including autoimmunity, pathogens …

Perivascular spaces and their role in neuroinflammation

BV Ineichen, SV Okar, ST Proulx, B Engelhardt… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
It is uncontested that perivascular spaces play critical roles in maintaining homeostasis and
priming neuroinflammation. However, despite more than a century of intense research on …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow in neurodegenerative, neurovascular and neuroinflammatory disease

MJ Simon, JJ Iliff - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation and turnover provides a sink for the elimination of
solutes from the brain interstitium, serving an important homeostatic role for the function of …

Astrocyte-derived VEGF-A drives blood-brain barrier disruption in CNS inflammatory disease

AT Argaw, L Asp, J Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
In inflammatory CNS conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS), current options to treat
clinical relapse are limited, and more selective agents are needed. Disruption of the blood …

Capture, crawl, cross: the T cell code to breach the blood–brain barriers

B Engelhardt, RM Ransohoff - Trends in immunology, 2012 - cell.com
The central nervous system (CNS) is an immunologically privileged site to which access of
circulating immune cells is tightly controlled by the endothelial blood–brain barrier (BBB; see …

Cancer cell-intrinsic mechanisms driving acquired immune tolerance

E Ghorani, C Swanton, SA Quezada - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer, enabling tumors to survive contact with the host
immune system and evade the cycle of immune recognition and destruction. Here, we …