Tissue-resident CD8+ T cells drive compartmentalized and chronic autoimmune damage against CNS neurons

D Frieser, A Pignata, L Khajavi, D Shlesinger… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
The mechanisms underlying the chronicity of autoimmune diseases of the central nervous
system (CNS) are largely unknown. In particular, it is unclear whether tissue-resident …

Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells cooperate with CD4+ T cells to drive compartmentalized immunopathology in the CNS

I Vincenti, N Page, K Steinbach, A Yermanos… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
In chronic inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), immune cells
persisting behind the blood-brain barrier are supposed to promulgate local tissue …

Peripherally induced brain tissue–resident memory CD8+ T cells mediate protection against CNS infection

SL Urban, IJ Jensen, Q Shan, LL Pewe, HH Xue… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The central nervous system (CNS) is classically viewed as immune-privileged; however,
recent advances highlight interactions between the peripheral immune system and CNS in …

Breaking peripheral immune tolerance to CNS antigens in neurodegenerative diseases: boosting autoimmunity to fight-off chronic neuroinflammation

M Schwartz, K Baruch - Journal of autoimmunity, 2014 - Elsevier
Immune cell infiltration to the brain's territory was considered for decades to reflect a
pathological process in which immune cells attack the central nervous system (CNS); such a …

Brain-resident memory T cells generated early in life predispose to autoimmune disease in mice

K Steinbach, I Vincenti, K Egervari… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Epidemiological studies associate viral infections during childhood with the risk of
developing autoimmune disease during adulthood. However, the mechanistic link between …

Identifying CNS-colonizing T cells as potential therapeutic targets to prevent progression of multiple sclerosis

M Kaufmann, H Evans, AL Schaupp, JB Engler, G Kaur… - Med, 2021 - cell.com
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system
(CNS), can be suppressed in its early stages but eventually becomes clinically progressive …

Transcriptomic and clonal characterization of T cells in the human central nervous system

JL Pappalardo, L Zhang, MK Pecsok, K Perlman… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
T cells provide critical immune surveillance to the central nervous system (CNS), and the
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is thought to be a main route for their entry. Further …

Conventional DCs sample and present myelin antigens in the healthy CNS and allow parenchymal T cell entry to initiate neuroinflammation

S Mundt, D Mrdjen, SG Utz, M Greter, B Schreiner… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The central nervous system (CNS) is under close surveillance by immune cells, which
mediate tissue homeostasis, protection, and repair. Conversely, in neuroinflammation …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptomic profiling identifies CD8+ T cells in the brain of aged and alzheimer's disease transgenic mice as tissue-resident memory T cells

B Altendorfer, MS Unger, R Poupardin… - The Journal of …, 2022 - journals.aai.org
Peripheral immune cell infiltration into the brain is a prominent feature in aging and various
neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). As AD progresses, CD8+ T …

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 …