Multiple sclerosis: Neuroimmune crosstalk and therapeutic targeting

M Charabati, MA Wheeler, HL Weiner, FJ Quintana - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease of the central
nervous system afflicting nearly three million individuals worldwide. Neuroimmune …

Immune cell regulation of glia during CNS injury and disease

AD Greenhalgh, S David, FC Bennett - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Glial cells are abundant in the CNS and are essential for brain development and
homeostasis. These cells also regulate tissue recovery after injury and their dysfunction is a …

[PDF][PDF] Microglia in multiple sclerosis: Protectors turn destroyers

VW Yong - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Microglia are implicated in all stages of multiple sclerosis (MS). Microglia alterations are
detected by positron emission tomography in people living with MS prior to the formation of …

Inflammation in multiple sclerosis: Consequences for remyelination and disease progression

L Klotz, J Antel, T Kuhlmann - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the large number of immunomodulatory or immunosuppressive treatments available
to treat relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment of the progressive phase of the …

Roles of microglia in brain development, tissue maintenance and repair

MA Michell-Robinson, H Touil, LM Healy, DR Owen… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The emerging roles of microglia are currently being investigated in the healthy and diseased
brain with a growing interest in their diverse functions. In recent years, it has been …

Remyelination therapies: a new direction and challenge in multiple sclerosis

JR Plemel, WQ Liu, VW Yong - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis is characterized by inflammatory activity that results in destruction of the
myelin sheaths that enwrap axons. The currently available medications for multiple sclerosis …

The extracellular matrix as modifier of neuroinflammation and remyelination in multiple sclerosis

S Ghorbani, VW Yong - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Remyelination failure contributes to axonal loss and progression of disability in multiple
sclerosis. The failed repair process could be due to ongoing toxic neuroinflammation and to …

Role of the JAK/STAT signaling pathway in regulation of innate immunity in neuroinflammatory diseases

Z Yan, SA Gibson, JA Buckley, H Qin, EN Benveniste - Clinical Immunology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Janus Kinase/Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription (JAK/STAT)
signaling pathway is utilized by numerous cytokines and interferons, and is essential for the …

Gene expression in oligodendrocytes during remyelination reveals cholesterol homeostasis as a therapeutic target in multiple sclerosis

RR Voskuhl, N Itoh, A Tassoni… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Regional differences in neurons, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia exist in the
brain during health, and regional differences in the transcriptome may occur for each cell …

Versican promotes T helper 17 cytotoxic inflammation and impedes oligodendrocyte precursor cell remyelination

S Ghorbani, E Jelinek, R Jain, B Buehner, C Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Remyelination failure in multiple sclerosis (MS) contributes to progression of disability. The
deficient repair results from neuroinflammation and deposition of inhibitors including …