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    The astrocyte-produced growth factor HB-EGF limits autoimmune CNS pathology

    Central nervous system (CNS)-resident cells such as microglia, oligodendrocytes and astrocytes are gaining increasing attention in respect to their contribution to CNS pathologies including multiple sclerosis ...

    Mathias Linnerbauer, Lena Lößlein, Oliver Vandrey, Anne Peter in Nature Immunology (2024)

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    Neuroinflammatory disease signatures in SPG11-related hereditary spastic paraplegia patients

    Biallelic loss of SPG11 function constitutes the most frequent cause of complicated autosomal recessive hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) with thin corpus callosum, resulting in progressive multisystem neurodeg...

    Laura Krumm, Tatyana Pozner, Naime Zagha, Roland Coras in Acta Neuropathologica (2024)

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    The role of intrathecal free light chains kappa for the detection of autoimmune encephalitis in subacute onset neuropsychiatric syndromes

    Intrathecal synthesis of free light chains kappa (FLCK) is increasingly recognized as a marker of inflammatory CNS pathologies. Here, we tested the performance of FLCK in differentiating autoimmune encephaliti...

    Dominic Bertram, Thanos Tsaktanis, Achim Berthele, Thomas Korn in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    PD-L1 positive astrocytes attenuate inflammatory functions of PD-1 positive microglia in models of autoimmune neuroinflammation

    Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system (CNS). Current therapies mainly target inflammatory processes during acute stages, but effective treatments f...

    Mathias Linnerbauer, Tobias Beyer, Lucy Nirschl, Daniel Farrenkopf in Nature Communications (2023)