B cells in autoimmune and neurodegenerative central nervous system diseases

JJ Sabatino Jr, AK Pröbstel, SS Zamvil - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
B cells are essential components of the adaptive immune system and have important roles
in the pathogenesis of several central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Besides producing …

The role of B cells and antibodies in multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, and related disorders

S Häusser-Kinzel, MS Weber - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Our pathophysiological concept of the most common central nervous system demyelinating
disease, multiple sclerosis, strikingly evolved by recent discoveries suggesting that B …

Secretory products of multiple sclerosis B cells are cytotoxic to oligodendroglia in vitro

RP Lisak, JA Benjamins, L Nedelkoska… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
B cells are important in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and some of the effects
are not dependent on maturation of B cells into immunoglobulin (Ig) producing plasmablasts …

Intrathecal oligoclonal IgG synthesis in multiple sclerosis

A Petzold - Journal of neuroimmunology, 2013 - Elsevier
The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis is based on dissemination in time and space. Before
2010 lack of evidence for dissemination in space could be substituted by a paraclinical test …

B cells are multifunctional players in multiple sclerosis pathogenesis: insights from therapeutic interventions

N Claes, J Fraussen, P Stinissen, R Hupperts… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a severe disease of the central nervous system (CNS)
characterized by autoimmune inflammation and neurodegeneration. Historically, damage to …

Flow cytometric characterization of cerebrospinal fluid cells

MT de Graaf, AHC de Jongste, J Kraan… - Cytometry Part B …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Flow cytometry facilitates the detection of a large spectrum of cellular characteristics on a per
cell basis, determination of absolute cell numbers and detection of rare events with high …

Memory B cells in multiple sclerosis: emerging players in disease pathogenesis

KD DiSano, F Gilli, AR Pachner - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous
system. Once thought to be primarily driven by T cells, B cells are emerging as central …

Memory B cells from a subset of treatment‐naïve relapsing‐remitting multiple sclerosis patients elicit CD4+ T‐cell proliferation and IFN‐γ production in response to …

CT Harp, S Ireland, LS Davis… - European journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recent evidence suggests that B‐and T‐cell interactions may be paramount in relapsing‐
remitting MS (RRMS) disease pathogenesis. We hypothesized that memory B‐cell pools …

Viruses and multiple sclerosis

GP Owens, D Gilden, MP Burgoon, X Yu… - The …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disorder of unknown etiology, possibly
caused by a virus or virus-triggered immunopathology. The virus might reactivate after years …

Update on inflammation, neurodegeneration, and immunoregulation in multiple sclerosis: therapeutic implications

JL Bennett, O Stüve - Clinical neuropharmacology, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating, and neurodegenerative disease
of the central nervous system of uncertain etiology. There is consensus that a dysregulated …