Multiple sclerosis—the plaque and its pathogenesis

EM Frohman, MK Racke, CS Raine - New England Journal of …, 2006 - Mass Medical Soc
Substantial advances have elucidated some of the central mechanisms underlying the
inflammation, demyelination, and neurodegeneration that occur in multiple sclerosis …

B lineage cells in the inflammatory central nervous system environment: migration, maintenance, local antibody production, and therapeutic modulation

E Meinl, M Krumbholz… - Annals of Neurology …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
B cells have long played an enigmatic role in the scenario of multiple sclerosis
pathogenesis. This review summarizes recent progress in our understanding of B‐cell …

Immune surveillance in multiple sclerosis patients treated with natalizumab

O Stüve, CM Marra, KR Jerome, L Cook… - Annals of Neurology …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Our objective was to test whether natalizumab, an antibody against very late
activating antigen (VLA)‐4, interferes with central nervous system immune surveillance as …

Matching of oligoclonal immunoglobulin transcriptomes and proteomes of cerebrospinal fluid in multiple sclerosis

B Obermeier, R Mentele, J Malotka, J Kellermann… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
We describe a method for correlating the immunoglobulin (Ig) proteomes with the B cell
transcriptomes in human fluid and tissue samples, using multiple sclerosis as a paradigm …

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 …

Antigen presentation, autoantigens, and immune regulation in multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases

C Riedhammer, R Weissert - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Antigen presentation is in the center of the immune system, both in host defense against
pathogens, but also when the system is unbalanced and autoimmune diseases like multiple …

Antibodies produced by clonally expanded plasma cells in multiple sclerosis cerebrospinal fluid

GP Owens, JL Bennett, H Lassmann… - Annals of Neurology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective Intrathecal IgG synthesis, persistence of bands of oligoclonal IgG, and
memory B‐cell clonal expansion are well‐characterized features of the humoral response in …

B cells from patients with multiple sclerosis induce cell death via apoptosis in neurons in vitro

RP Lisak, L Nedelkoska, JA Benjamins… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
B cells mediate multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis by mechanisms unrelated to
immunoglobulin (Ig). We reported that supernatants (Sup) from cultured B cells from blood of …

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 …