The immune response in multiple sclerosis

S Rodríguez Murúa, MF Farez… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative
disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). MS is characterized by immune …

[HTML][HTML] Role of microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids in nervous system disorders

R Mirzaei, B Bouzari, SR Hosseini-Fard… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
During the past decade, accumulating evidence from the research highlights the suggested
effects of bacterial communities of the human gut microbiota and their metabolites on health …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mimicry and autoimmunity

M Rojas, P Restrepo-Jiménez, DM Monsalve… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Molecular mimicry is one of the leading mechanisms by which infectious or chemical agents
may induce autoimmunity. It occurs when similarities between foreign and self-peptides …

Memory B cells activate brain-homing, autoreactive CD4+ T cells in multiple sclerosis

I Jelcic, F Al Nimer, J Wang, V Lentsch, R Planas… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that is caused by the interplay of genetic,
particularly the HLA-DR15 haplotype, and environmental risk factors. How these etiologic …

Current and future biomarkers in multiple sclerosis

J Yang, M Hamade, Q Wu, Q Wang, R Axtell… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating autoimmune disorder. Currently, there is a lack of
effective treatment for the progressive form of MS, partly due to insensitive readout for …

Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types

HK Finucane, YA Reshef, V Anttila, K Slowikowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We introduce an approach to identify disease-relevant tissues and cell types by analyzing
gene expression data together with genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple sclerosis patients have a distinct gut microbiota compared to healthy controls

J Chen, N Chia, KR Kalari, JZ Yao, M Novotna… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease, the etiology of which involves both
genetic and environmental factors. The exact nature of the environmental factors …

Revisiting the mechanisms of CNS immune privilege

A Louveau, TH Harris, J Kipnis - Trends in immunology, 2015 - cell.com
Whereas the study of the interactions between the immune system and the central nervous
system (CNS) has often focused on pathological conditions, the importance of neuroimmune …

[HTML][HTML] A diet mimicking fasting promotes regeneration and reduces autoimmunity and multiple sclerosis symptoms

IY Choi, L Piccio, P Childress, B Bollman, A Ghosh… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Dietary interventions have not been effective in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Here, we show that periodic 3-day cycles of a fasting mimicking diet (FMD) are effective in …

CD4 + T-cell subsets in inflammatory diseases: beyond the T h 1/T h 2 paradigm

K Hirahara, T Nakayama - International immunology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
CD4+ T cells are crucial for directing appropriate immune responses during host defense
and for the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. In addition to the classical biphasic …