Narcolepsy—clinical spectrum, aetiopathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment

CLA Bassetti, A Adamantidis, D Burdakov… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Narcolepsy is a rare brain disorder that reflects a selective loss or dysfunction of orexin (also
known as hypocretin) neurons of the lateral hypothalamus. Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is …

The immunopathogenesis of narcolepsy type 1

RS Liblau, D Latorre, BR Kornum… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a chronic sleep disorder resulting from the loss of a
small population of hypothalamic neurons that produce wake-promoting hypocretin (HCRT; …

T cells in patients with narcolepsy target self-antigens of hypocretin neurons

D Latorre, U Kallweit, E Armentani, M Foglierini, F Mele… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder caused by the loss of neurons that produce
hypocretin. The close association with HLA-DQB1* 06: 02, evidence for immune …

The neurobiological basis of narcolepsy

CE Mahoney, A Cogswell, IJ Koralnik… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Narcolepsy is the most common neurological cause of chronic sleepiness. The discovery
about 20 years ago that narcolepsy is caused by selective loss of the neurons producing …

Narcolepsy

BR Kornum, S Knudsen, HM Ollila, F Pizza… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder that has a typical onset in adolescence and is
characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, which can have severe consequences for …

“World in motion”–emulsion adjuvants rising to meet the pandemic challenges

DT O'Hagan, R van der Most, RN Lodaya, M Coccia… - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
Emulsion adjuvants such as MF59 and AS03 have been used for more than two decades as
key components of licensed vaccines, with over 100 million doses administered to diverse …

Autoimmunity to hypocretin and molecular mimicry to flu in type 1 narcolepsy

G Luo, A Ambati, L Lin, M Bonvalet… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Type 1 narcolepsy (T1N) is caused by hypocretin/orexin (HCRT) neuronal loss. Association
with the HLA DQB1* 06: 02/DQA1* 01: 02 (98% vs. 25%) heterodimer (DQ0602), T cell …

Physiology of gangliosides and the role of antiganglioside antibodies in human diseases

G Cutillo, AH Saariaho, S Meri - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Gangliosides are structurally and functionally polymorphic sialic acid containing
glycosphingolipids that are widely distributed in the human body. They play important roles …

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 …

Neurons under T cell attack coordinate phagocyte-mediated synaptic stripping

G Di Liberto, S Pantelyushin, M Kreutzfeldt, N Page… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Inflammatory disorders of the CNS are frequently accompanied by synaptic loss, which is
thought to involve phagocytic microglia and complement components. However, the …