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 …

Multiple sclerosis: mechanisms and immunotherapy

C Baecher-Allan, BJ Kaskow, HL Weiner - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease triggered by environmental factors that act
on a genetically susceptible host. It features three clinical stages: a pre-clinical stage …

Thinking outside the box: non-canonical targets in multiple sclerosis

L Bierhansl, HP Hartung, O Aktas, T Ruck… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system that
causes demyelination, axonal degeneration and astrogliosis, resulting in progressive …

Multiple sclerosis and myelin basic protein: Insights into protein disorder and disease

V Martinsen, P Kursula - Amino Acids, 2022 - Springer
Myelin basic protein (MBP) is an abundant protein in central nervous system (CNS) myelin.
MBP has long been studied as a factor in the pathogenesis of the autoimmune …

Role of the innate and adaptive immune responses in the course of multiple sclerosis

B Hemmer, M Kerschensteiner, T Korn - The Lancet Neurology, 2015 - thelancet.com
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease of the CNS that leads to substantial disability in most
patients. The early phase is characterised by relapses and the later phase by progressive …

Effector T cells in multiple sclerosis

BJ Kaskow, C Baecher-Allan - Cold Spring …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) has long been considered a CD4 T-cell disease, primarily because
of the findings that the strongest genetic risk for MS is the major histocompatibility complex …

Multiple sclerosis: immunopathology and treatment update

N Dargahi, M Katsara, T Tselios, ME Androutsou… - Brain sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has changed over the last 20 years. All
immunotherapeutic drugs target relapsing remitting MS (RRMS) and it still remains a …

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) as a model for multiple sclerosis (MS)

CS Constantinescu, N Farooqi… - British journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is the most commonly used
experimental model for the human inflammatory demyelinating disease, multiple sclerosis …

Animal models of multiple sclerosis

C Procaccini, V De Rosa, V Pucino, L Formisano… - European journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous
system (CNS) which involves a complex interaction between immune system and neural …

Antigen-specific therapeutic approaches for autoimmunity

P Serra, P Santamaria - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
The main function of the immune system in health is to protect the host from infection by
microbes and parasites. Because immune responses to nonself bear the risk of unleashing …