B cell depletion therapies in autoimmune disease: advances and mechanistic insights

DSW Lee, OL Rojas, JL Gommerman - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
In the past 15 years, B cells have been rediscovered to be not merely bystanders but rather
active participants in autoimmune aetiology. This has been fuelled in part by the clinical …

Cellular immunology of relapsing multiple sclerosis: interactions, checks, and balances

A Bar-Or, R Li - The Lancet Neurology, 2021 - thelancet.com
Novel insights from basic and translational studies are reshaping concepts of the
immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and understanding of the different inflammatory …

Role of B cells in multiple sclerosis and related disorders

G Comi, A Bar‐Or, H Lassmann, A Uccelli… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The success of clinical trials of selective B‐cell depletion in patients with relapsing multiple
sclerosis (MS) and primary progressive MS has led to a conceptual shift in the …

Mechanisms of melanocyte death in vitiligo

J Chen, S Li, C Li - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vitiligo is an autoimmune depigment disease results from extensive melanocytes
destruction. The destruction of melanocyte is thought to be of multifactorial causation …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple sclerosis therapies differentially affect SARS-CoV-2 vaccine–induced antibody and T cell immunity and function

JJ Sabatino Jr, K Mittl, WM Rowles, K McPolin… - JCI insight, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Vaccine-elicited adaptive immunity is a prerequisite for control of SARS-
CoV-2 infection. Multiple sclerosis (MS) disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) differentially …

Anti-CD20 therapies in multiple sclerosis: From pathology to the clinic

J de Sèze, E Maillart, A Gueguen, DA Laplaud… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The immune system plays a significant role in multiple sclerosis. While MS was historically
thought to be T cell-mediated, multiple pieces of evidence now support the view that B cells …

Memory CD4+ T Cells in Immunity and Autoimmune Diseases

I Raphael, RR Joern, TG Forsthuber - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
CD4+ T helper (Th) cells play central roles in immunity in health and disease. While much is
known about the effector function of Th cells in combating pathogens and promoting …

Proinflammatory CD20+ T cells contribute to CNS-directed autoimmunity

J Ochs, N Nissimov, S Torke, M Freier… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
The origin and function of CD20+ T cells are poorly understood. Here, we characterized
CD20+ T cells in mice and humans and investigated how they are affected by anti-CD20 …

Differential effects of anti-CD20 therapy on CD4 and CD8 T cells and implication of CD20-expressing CD8 T cells in MS disease activity

K Shinoda, R Li, A Rezk, I Mexhitaj… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
A small proportion of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients develop new disease activity soon after
starting anti-CD20 therapy. This activity does not recur with further dosing, possibly reflecting …

Inflammation in multiple sclerosis

S Haase, RA Linker - Therapeutic Advances in Neurological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system
(CNS) that is characterised pathologically by demyelination, gliosis, neuro-axonal damage …