[HTML][HTML] Blood-brain barrier: from physiology to disease and back

MD Sweeney, Z Zhao, A Montagne… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents neurotoxic plasma components, blood cells, and
pathogens from entering the brain. At the same time, the BBB regulates transport of …

The role of glial cells in multiple sclerosis disease progression

LM Healy, JA Stratton, T Kuhlmann… - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the development of highly effective treatments for relapsing–remitting multiple
sclerosis (MS), limited progress has been made in addressing primary progressive or …

An updated histological classification system for multiple sclerosis lesions

T Kuhlmann, S Ludwin, A Prat, J Antel, W Brück… - Acta …, 2017 - Springer
Multiple sclerosis is a complex and heterogeneous, most likely autoimmune, demyelinating
disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Although a number of histological …

Fibrinogen in neurological diseases: mechanisms, imaging and therapeutics

MA Petersen, JK Ryu, K Akassoglou - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The blood coagulation protein fibrinogen is deposited in the brain in a wide range of
neurological diseases and traumatic injuries with blood–brain barrier (BBB) disruption …

Understanding the role of the perivascular space in cerebral small vessel disease

R Brown, H Benveniste, SE Black… - Cardiovascular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Small vessel diseases (SVDs) are a group of disorders that result from pathological
alteration of the small blood vessels in the brain, including the small arteries, capillaries and …

Neurite dispersion: a new marker of multiple sclerosis spinal cord pathology?

F Grussu, T Schneider, C Tur, RL Yates… - Annals of clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the multiple sclerosis spinal
cord is limited by low specificity regarding the underlying pathological processes, and new …

Perivascular spaces and their role in neuroinflammation

BV Ineichen, SV Okar, ST Proulx, B Engelhardt… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
It is uncontested that perivascular spaces play critical roles in maintaining homeostasis and
priming neuroinflammation. However, despite more than a century of intense research on …

Central vein sign differentiates Multiple Sclerosis from central nervous system inflammatory vasculopathies

P Maggi, M Absinta, M Grammatico, L Vuolo… - Annals of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives In multiple sclerosis (MS), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a sensitive tool
for detecting white matter lesions, but its diagnostic specificity is still suboptimal; ambiguous …

Blood coagulation protein fibrinogen promotes autoimmunity and demyelination via chemokine release and antigen presentation

JK Ryu, MA Petersen, SG Murray, KM Baeten… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Autoimmunity and macrophage recruitment into the central nervous system (CNS) are
critical determinants of neuroinflammatory diseases. However, the mechanisms that drive …

Aberrant oligodendroglial–vascular interactions disrupt the blood–brain barrier, triggering CNS inflammation

J Niu, HH Tsai, KK Hoi, N Huang, G Yu, K Kim… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Disruption of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) is critical to initiation and perpetuation of disease
in multiple sclerosis (MS). We report an interaction between oligodendroglia and …