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Plafker SM, Titcomb T, Zyla-Jackson K, Kolakowska A, Wahls T. Overview of diet and autoimmune demyelinating optic neuritis: a narrative review. IMMUNOMETABOLISM (COBHAM (SURREY, ENGLAND)) 2023; 5:e00022. [PMID: 37128292 PMCID: PMC10144304 DOI: 10.1097/in9.0000000000000022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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This review summarizes the cellular and molecular underpinnings of autoimmune demyelinating optic neuritis (ADON), a common sequela of multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases. We further present nutritional interventions tested for people with multiple sclerosis focusing on strategies that have shown efficacy or associations with disease course and clinical outcomes. We then close by discuss the potential dietary guidance for preventing and/or ameliorating ADON.
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- Scott M. Plafker
- Aging and Metabolism Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- *Correspondence: Scott M. Plafker, E-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Aging and Metabolism Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Aging and Metabolism Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Immune Cell Contributors to the Female Sex Bias in Multiple Sclerosis and Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2022; 62:333-373. [PMID: 35467295 DOI: 10.1007/7854_2022_324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, autoimmune, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that leads to axonal damage and accumulation of disability. Relapsing-remitting MS (RR-MS) is the most frequent presentation of MS and this form of MS is three times more prevalent in females than in males. This female bias in MS is apparent only after puberty, suggesting a role for sex hormones in this regulation; however, very little is known of the biological mechanisms that underpin the sex difference in MS onset. Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is an animal model of RR-MS that presents more severely in females in certain mouse strains and thus has been useful to study sex differences in CNS autoimmunity. Here, we overview the immunopathogenesis of MS and EAE and how immune mechanisms in these diseases differ between a male and female. We further describe how females exhibit more robust myelin-specific T helper (Th) 1 immunity in MS and EAE and how this sex bias in Th cells is conveyed by sex hormone effects on the T cells, antigen presenting cells, regulatory T cells, and innate lymphoid cell populations.
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Noguera-Navarro C, Navas-Carrillo D, Orenes-Piñero E. Gut microbiota alterations and nutritional intervention in multiple sclerosis disease. FOOD REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/87559129.2022.2062771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Clara Noguera-Navarro
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-A, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Surgery, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-A, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Department of Surgery, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
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Harris KM, Clements MA, Kwilasz AJ, Watkins LR. T cell transgressions: Tales of T cell form and function in diverse disease states. Int Rev Immunol 2022; 41:475-516. [PMID: 34152881 PMCID: PMC8752099 DOI: 10.1080/08830185.2021.1921764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Insights into T cell form, function, and dysfunction are rapidly evolving. T cells have remarkably varied effector functions including protecting the host from infection, activating cells of the innate immune system, releasing cytokines and chemokines, and heavily contributing to immunological memory. Under healthy conditions, T cells orchestrate a finely tuned attack on invading pathogens while minimizing damage to the host. The dark side of T cells is that they also exhibit autoreactivity and inflict harm to host cells, creating autoimmunity. The mechanisms of T cell autoreactivity are complex and dynamic. Emerging research is elucidating the mechanisms leading T cells to become autoreactive and how such responses cause or contribute to diverse disease states, both peripherally and within the central nervous system. This review provides foundational information on T cell development, differentiation, and functions. Key T cell subtypes, cytokines that create their effector roles, and sex differences are highlighted. Pathological T cell contributions to diverse peripheral and central disease states, arising from errors in reactivity, are highlighted, with a focus on multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, neuropathic pain, and type 1 diabetes.
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- Corresponding author: Ph: 720-387-0304, Fax: 303-735-8290, , Address: 2860 Wilderness Place, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80301
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Lopez JA, Denkova M, Ramanathan S, Dale RC, Brilot F. Pathogenesis of autoimmune demyelination: from multiple sclerosis to neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease. Clin Transl Immunology 2021; 10:e1316. [PMID: 34336206 PMCID: PMC8312887 DOI: 10.1002/cti2.1316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Revised: 06/20/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Autoimmunity plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of demyelination. Multiple sclerosis (MS), neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody‐associated disease (MOGAD) are now recognised as separate disease entities under the amalgam of human central nervous system demyelinating disorders. While these disorders share inherent similarities, investigations into their distinct clinical presentations and lesion pathologies have aided in differential diagnoses and understanding of disease pathogenesis. An interplay of various genetic and environmental factors contributes to each disease, many of which implicate an autoimmune response. The pivotal role of the adaptive immune system has been highlighted by the diagnostic autoantibodies in NMOSD and MOGAD, and the presence of autoreactive lymphocytes in MS lesions. While a number of autoantigens have been proposed in MS, recent emphasis on the contribution of B cells has shed new light on the well‐established understanding of T cell involvement in pathogenesis. This review aims to synthesise the clinical characteristics and pathological findings, discuss existing and emerging hypotheses regarding the aetiology of demyelination and evaluate recent pathogenicity studies involving T cells, B cells, and autoantibodies and their implications in human demyelination.
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- Joseph A Lopez
- Brain Autoimmunity Group Kids Neuroscience Centre Kids Research at the Children's Hospital at Westmead Sydney NSW Australia.,Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia
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- Brain Autoimmunity Group Kids Neuroscience Centre Kids Research at the Children's Hospital at Westmead Sydney NSW Australia.,School of Medical Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia
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- Brain Autoimmunity Group Kids Neuroscience Centre Kids Research at the Children's Hospital at Westmead Sydney NSW Australia.,Sydney Medical School Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia.,Department of Neurology Concord Hospital Sydney NSW Australia
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- Brain Autoimmunity Group Kids Neuroscience Centre Kids Research at the Children's Hospital at Westmead Sydney NSW Australia.,Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia.,Sydney Medical School Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia.,Brain and Mind Centre The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia
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- Brain Autoimmunity Group Kids Neuroscience Centre Kids Research at the Children's Hospital at Westmead Sydney NSW Australia.,Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia.,School of Medical Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia.,Brain and Mind Centre The University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia
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Veroni C, Aloisi F. The CD8 T Cell-Epstein-Barr Virus-B Cell Trialogue: A Central Issue in Multiple Sclerosis Pathogenesis. Front Immunol 2021; 12:665718. [PMID: 34305896 PMCID: PMC8292956 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.665718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The cause and the pathogenic mechanisms leading to multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS), are still under scrutiny. During the last decade, awareness has increased that multiple genetic and environmental factors act in concert to modulate MS risk. Likewise, the landscape of cells of the adaptive immune system that are believed to play a role in MS immunopathogenesis has expanded by including not only CD4 T helper cells but also cytotoxic CD8 T cells and B cells. Once the key cellular players are identified, the main challenge is to define precisely how they act and interact to induce neuroinflammation and the neurodegenerative cascade in MS. CD8 T cells have been implicated in MS pathogenesis since the 80's when it was shown that CD8 T cells predominate in MS brain lesions. Interest in the role of CD8 T cells in MS was revived in 2000 and the years thereafter by studies showing that CNS-recruited CD8 T cells are clonally expanded and have a memory effector phenotype indicating in situ antigen-driven reactivation. The association of certain MHC class I alleles with MS genetic risk implicates CD8 T cells in disease pathogenesis. Moreover, experimental studies have highlighted the detrimental effects of CD8 T cell activation on neural cells. While the antigens responsible for T cell recruitment and activation in the CNS remain elusive, the high efficacy of B-cell depleting drugs in MS and a growing number of studies implicate B cells and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a B-lymphotropic herpesvirus that is strongly associated with MS, in the activation of pathogenic T cells. This article reviews the results of human studies that have contributed to elucidate the role of CD8 T cells in MS immunopathogenesis, and discusses them in light of current understanding of autoreactivity, B-cell and EBV involvement in MS, and mechanism of action of different MS treatments. Based on the available evidences, an immunopathological model of MS is proposed that entails a persistent EBV infection of CNS-infiltrating B cells as the target of a dysregulated cytotoxic CD8 T cell response causing CNS tissue damage.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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Collier JL, Weiss SA, Pauken KE, Sen DR, Sharpe AH. Not-so-opposite ends of the spectrum: CD8 + T cell dysfunction across chronic infection, cancer and autoimmunity. Nat Immunol 2021; 22:809-819. [PMID: 34140679 PMCID: PMC9197228 DOI: 10.1038/s41590-021-00949-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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CD8+ T cells are critical mediators of cytotoxic effector function in infection, cancer and autoimmunity. In cancer and chronic viral infection, CD8+ T cells undergo a progressive loss of cytokine production and cytotoxicity, a state termed T cell exhaustion. In autoimmunity, autoreactive CD8+ T cells retain the capacity to effectively mediate the destruction of host tissues. Although the clinical outcome differs in each context, CD8+ T cells are chronically exposed to antigen in all three. These chronically stimulated CD8+ T cells share some common phenotypic features, as well as transcriptional and epigenetic programming, across disease contexts. A better understanding of these CD8+ T cell states may reveal novel strategies to augment clearance of chronic viral infection and cancer and to mitigate self-reactivity leading to tissue damage in autoimmunity.
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- Jenna L Collier
- Department of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA and Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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- Department of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA and Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.,Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA
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- Department of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA and Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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- Department of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA and Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.,Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA and Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA
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Jakhmola S, Upadhyay A, Jain K, Mishra A, Jha HC. Herpesviruses and the hidden links to Multiple Sclerosis neuropathology. J Neuroimmunol 2021; 358:577636. [PMID: 34174587 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2021.577636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Herpesviruses like Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus (HHV)-6, HHV-1, VZV, and human endogenous retroviruses, have an age-old clinical association with multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is an autoimmune disease of the nervous system wherein the myelin sheath deteriorates. The most popular mode of virus mediated immune system manipulation is molecular mimicry. Numerous herpesvirus antigens are similar to myelin proteins. Other mechanisms described here include the activity of cytokines and autoantibodies produced by the autoreactive T and B cells, respectively, viral déjà vu, epitope spreading, CD46 receptor engagement, impaired remyelination etc. Overall, this review addresses the host-parasite association of viruses with MS.
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- Shweta Jakhmola
- Infection Bioengineering Group, Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
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- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India
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- Infection Bioengineering Group, Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
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- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India
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- Infection Bioengineering Group, Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India.
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miR-155 and functional proteins of CD8+ T cells as potential prognostic biomarkers for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler Relat Disord 2021; 53:103078. [PMID: 34171684 DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2021.103078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that results in neurological deficits in patients leading to disabilities which are evaluated on a scale known as the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). The most prevalent subtype of the disease is Relapsing-Remitting Multiple sclerosis (RRMS). One of the key players in MS pathogenesis is CD8+ T cells present in abundance in MS lesions expressing surface receptors, intracellular adhesion molecule (ICAM1) and integrin Subunit Beta 2 (ITGB2). These proteins are crucial for migration through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and secondary stimulatory signal, along with the cytotoxic proteins perforin and granzymeB that attack oligodendrocytes. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that play a substantial regulatory role in various disease pathogeneses through post-transcriptional modifications, and miR-155 shows potential for its use as a biomarker of the disease. The study aims at investigating the expression of miR-155, ICAM1, ITGB2, perforin and GranzymeB in CD8+ T cells of RRMS patients receiving different treatment regimens and how these genes correlate with patients' EDSS and miR-155 expression. METHODS Gene expression of miR-155, ICAM1, ITGB2, perforin and granzymeB was evaluated using RT-qPCR in CD8+ T cells isolated from blood samples of RRMS patients and compared to healthy controls. RESULTS Results showed downregulation of miR-155 and upregulation of surface receptors and cytotoxic proteins in CD8+T cells with significant correlation with each other and patients' EDSS. CONCLUSION This study helps pave the road for the discussed genes for their use as potential biomarkers of disease disability and future investigations on their regulatory roles in disease pathogenesis.
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Brorson IS, Eriksson AM, Leikfoss IS, Vitelli V, Celius EG, Lüders T, Berge T, Harbo HF, Nilsen H, Bos SD. CD8 + T cell gene expression analysis identifies differentially expressed genes between multiple sclerosis patients and healthy controls. Mult Scler J Exp Transl Clin 2020; 6:2055217320978511. [PMID: 33343920 PMCID: PMC7731718 DOI: 10.1177/2055217320978511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background Genetic and clinical observations have indicated T cells are involved in MS pathology. There is little insight in how T cells are involved and whether or not these can be used as markers for MS. Objectives Analysis of the gene expression profiles of circulating CD8+ T cells of MS patients compared to healthy controls. Methods RNA from purified CD8+ T cells was sequenced and analyzed for differential gene expression. Pathway analyses of genes at several p-value cutoffs were performed to identify putative pathways involved. Results We identified 36 genes with significant differential gene expression in MS patients. Four genes reached at least 2-fold differences in expression. The majority of differentially expressed genes was higher expressed in MS patients. Genes associated to MS in GWAS showed enrichment amongst the differentially expressed genes. We did not identify enrichment of specific pathways amongst the differentially expressed genes in MS patients. Conclusions CD8+ T cells of MS patients show differential gene expression, with predominantly higher activity of genes in MS patients. We do not identify specific biological pathways in our study. More detailed analysis of CD8+ T cells and subtypes of these may increase understanding of how T cells are involved in MS.
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Mechanical, Electronics and Chemical Engineering, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Research, Innovation and Education, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Universitetssykehus, Nevrologisk avdeling, DMII, Rom L-265, Gaustadalleen 34, 0372 Oslo, Norway.
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Stojić-Vukanić Z, Hadžibegović S, Nicole O, Nacka-Aleksić M, Leštarević S, Leposavić G. CD8+ T Cell-Mediated Mechanisms Contribute to the Progression of Neurocognitive Impairment in Both Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's Disease? Front Immunol 2020; 11:566225. [PMID: 33329528 PMCID: PMC7710704 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.566225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Neurocognitive impairment (NCI) is one of the most relevant clinical manifestations of multiple sclerosis (MS). The profile of NCI and the structural and functional changes in the brain structures relevant for cognition in MS share some similarities to those in Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of neurocognitive disorders. Additionally, despite clear etiopathological differences between MS and AD, an accumulation of effector/memory CD8+ T cells and CD8+ tissue-resident memory T (Trm) cells in cognitively relevant brain structures of MS/AD patients, and higher frequency of effector/memory CD8+ T cells re-expressing CD45RA (TEMRA) with high capacity to secrete cytotoxic molecules and proinflammatory cytokines in their blood, were found. Thus, an active pathogenetic role of CD8+ T cells in the progression of MS and AD may be assumed. In this mini-review, findings supporting the putative role of CD8+ T cells in the pathogenesis of MS and AD are displayed, and putative mechanisms underlying their pathogenetic action are discussed. A special effort was made to identify the gaps in the current knowledge about the role of CD8+ T cells in the development of NCI to "catalyze" translational research leading to new feasible therapeutic interventions.
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- Zorica Stojić-Vukanić
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Belgrade-Faculty of Pharmacy, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, CNRS, UMR5293, Bordeaux, France.,Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, Université de Bordeaux, UMR5293, Bordeaux, France
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- Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, CNRS, UMR5293, Bordeaux, France.,Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, Université de Bordeaux, UMR5293, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Pathobiology, University of Belgrade-Faculty of Pharmacy, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Pathobiology, University of Belgrade-Faculty of Pharmacy, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Pathobiology, University of Belgrade-Faculty of Pharmacy, Belgrade, Serbia
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Teniente-Serra A, Soldevila B, Quirant-Sánchez B, Fernández MA, Ester Condins A, Puig-Domingo M, Pujol-Borrell R, Martínez-Cáceres EM. Distinct pattern of peripheral lymphocyte subsets in Graves' disease with persistency of anti-TSHR autoantibodies. Autoimmunity 2019; 52:220-227. [PMID: 31366254 DOI: 10.1080/08916934.2019.1646253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Background: Graves' disease (GD) is characterized by the production of autoantibodies against the TSHR (TRAbs). With long-term treatment, serum concentrations of TRAbs decline but in some patients, despite being clinically stable, TRAbs persist for many years.Objective: To investigate whether GD patients with persistence of TRAbs constitute a subset of patients that could be identified by phenotypic analysis of circulating lymphocytes, suggesting disease heterogeneity.Materials and methods: Peripheral blood lymphocytes (including naïve, memory and effector T and B cells, Th17, regulatory T cells (Treg), recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) and double positive CD4+CD8+ (DP) cells) were analysed by flow cytometry in a cross-sectional study in 25 clinically stable GD patients, five patients at onset of GD disease and 40 healthy donors (HDs).Results: GD patients with persistence of TRAbs showed a lower percentage of Treg and lower absolute numbers of central and effector memory CD8+ T cells than HD. No differences in RTEs were found in peripheral blood from GD patients compared to HD. Stable GD patients had higher percentage of DP cells of effector phenotype than HD.Conclusions: Using extensive phenotypic analysis of lymphocyte subpopulations, it is possible to detect changes that help to identify patients with persistent TSHR antibodies and may contribute to understand why the autoimmune response is maintained.
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- Aina Teniente-Serra
- Immunology Division, LCMN Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital Badalona, Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
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- Endocrinology and Nutrition Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
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- Immunology Division, LCMN Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital Badalona, Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
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- Flow Cytometry Facility, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain.,Endocrinology and Nutrition Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Immunology Division, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Barcelona, Spain
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- Immunology Division, LCMN Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital Badalona, Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
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Van Kaer L, Postoak JL, Wang C, Yang G, Wu L. Innate, innate-like and adaptive lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of MS and EAE. Cell Mol Immunol 2019; 16:531-539. [PMID: 30874627 DOI: 10.1038/s41423-019-0221-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) in which the immune system damages the protective insulation surrounding the nerve fibers that project from neurons. A hallmark of MS and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), is autoimmunity against proteins of the myelin sheath. Most studies in this field have focused on the roles of CD4+ T lymphocytes, which form part of the adaptive immune system as both mediators and regulators in disease pathogenesis. Consequently, the treatments for MS often target the inflammatory CD4+ T-cell responses. However, many other lymphocyte subsets contribute to the pathophysiology of MS and EAE, and these subsets include CD8+ T cells and B cells of the adaptive immune system, lymphocytes of the innate immune system such as natural killer cells, and subsets of innate-like T and B lymphocytes such as γδ T cells, natural killer T cells, and mucosal-associated invariant T cells. Several of these lymphocyte subsets can act as mediators of CNS inflammation, whereas others exhibit immunoregulatory functions in disease. Importantly, the efficacy of some MS treatments might be mediated in part by effects on lymphocytes other than CD4+ T cells. Here we review the contributions of distinct subsets of lymphocytes on the pathogenesis of MS and EAE, with an emphasis on lymphocytes other than CD4+ T cells. A better understanding of the distinct lymphocyte subsets that contribute to the pathophysiology of MS and its experimental models will inform the development of novel therapeutic approaches.
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- Luc Van Kaer
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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Perriot S, Mathias A, Perriard G, Canales M, Jonkmans N, Merienne N, Meunier C, El Kassar L, Perrier AL, Laplaud DA, Schluep M, Déglon N, Du Pasquier R. Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Astrocytes Are Differentially Activated by Multiple Sclerosis-Associated Cytokines. Stem Cell Reports 2018; 11:1199-1210. [PMID: 30409508 PMCID: PMC6234919 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Revised: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 09/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Recent studies highlighted the importance of astrocytes in neuroinflammatory diseases, interacting closely with other CNS cells but also with the immune system. However, due to the difficulty in obtaining human astrocytes, their role in these pathologies is still poorly characterized. Here, we develop a serum-free protocol to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) into astrocytes. Gene expression and functional assays show that our protocol consistently yields a highly enriched population of resting mature astrocytes across the 13 hiPSC lines differentiated. Using this model, we first highlight the importance of serum-free media for astrocyte culture to generate resting astrocytes. Second, we assess the astrocytic response to IL-1β, TNF-α, and IL-6, all cytokines important in neuroinflammation, such as multiple sclerosis. Our study reveals very specific profiles of reactive astrocytes depending on the triggering stimulus. This model provides ideal conditions for in-depth and unbiased characterization of astrocyte reactivity in neuroinflammatory conditions.
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- Sylvain Perriot
- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neurotherapies and NeuroModulation, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neurotherapies and NeuroModulation, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I-Stem), Corbeil-Essonnes, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) UMR861, I-Stem, AFM, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Transplantation et Immunologie UMR1064, INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Service of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, CHUV BH-10/131, 46, rue du Bugnon, Lausanne 1011, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neurotherapies and NeuroModulation, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Neuroscience Research Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland; Service of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, CHUV BH-10/131, 46, rue du Bugnon, Lausanne 1011, Switzerland.
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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 (MHC) class II locus, and that T cells play a central role in directing the immune response. The importance that the T helper (Th)1 cytokine, interferon γ (IFN-γ), and the Th17 cytokine, interleukin (IL)-17, play in MS pathogenesis is indicated by recent clinical trial data by the enhanced presence of Th1/Th17 cells in central nervous system (CNS) tissue, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and blood, and by research on animal models of MS, such as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Although the majority of research on MS pathogenesis has centered on the role of effector CD4 T cells, accumulating data suggests that CD8 T cells may play a significant role in the human disease. In fact, in contrast to most animal models, the primary T cell found in the CNS in patients with MS, is the CD8 T cell. As patient-derived effector T cells are also resistant to mechanisms of dominant tolerance such as that induced by interaction with regulatory T cells (Tregs), their reduced response to regulation may also contribute to the unchecked effector T-cell activity in patients with MS. These concepts will be discussed below.
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- Belinda J Kaskow
- Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Bhise V, Dhib-Jalbut S. Further understanding of the immunopathology of multiple sclerosis: impact on future treatments. Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2016; 12:1069-89. [PMID: 27191526 DOI: 10.1080/1744666x.2016.1191351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The understanding of the immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) has expanded with more research into T-cell subtypes, cytokine contributors, B-cell participation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and more. Treatment options have rapidly expanded with three relatively recent oral therapy alternatives entering the arena. AREAS COVERED In the following review, we discuss current mechanisms of immune dysregulation in MS, how they relate to current treatments, and the impact these findings will have on the future of therapy. Expert commentary: The efficacy of these medications and understanding their mechanisms of actions validates the immunopathogenic mechanisms thought to underlie MS. Further research has exposed new targets, while new promising therapies have shed light on new aspects into the pathophysiology of MS.
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- Vikram Bhise
- a Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences - Departments of Pediatrics , Robert Wood Johnson Medical School , New Brunswick , NJ , USA
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- b Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences - Departments of Neurology , Robert Wood Johnson Medical School , New Brunswick , NJ , USA
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Salou M, Nicol B, Garcia A, Baron D, Michel L, Elong-Ngono A, Hulin P, Nedellec S, Jacq-Foucher M, Le Frère F, Jousset N, Bourreille A, Wiertlewski S, Soulillou JP, Brouard S, Nicot AB, Degauque N, Laplaud DA. Neuropathologic, phenotypic and functional analyses of Mucosal Associated Invariant T cells in Multiple Sclerosis. Clin Immunol 2016; 166-167:1-11. [PMID: 27050759 DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2016.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2015] [Revised: 03/07/2016] [Accepted: 03/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND The involvement of Mucosal Associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells, which are anti-microbial semi-invariant T cells, remains elusive in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). OBJECTIVE Deciphering the potential involvement of MAIT cells in the MS inflammatory process. METHODS By flow cytometry, blood MAIT cells from similar cohorts of MS patients and healthy volunteers (HV) were compared for frequency, phenotype, activation potential after in vitro TCR engagement by bacterial ligands and transmigration abilities through an in vitro model of blood-brain barrier. MS CNS samples were also studied by immunofluorescent staining and quantitative PCR. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Blood MAIT cells from relapsing-remitting MS patients and HV presented similar frequency, ex vivo effector phenotype and activation abilities. MAIT cells represented 0.5% of the total infiltrating T cells on 39 MS CNS lesions. This is low as compared to blood frequency (p<0.001), but consistent with their low transmigration rate. Finally, transcriptional over-expression of MR1 - which presents cognate antigens to MAIT cells - and of the activating cytokines IL-18 and IL-23 was evidenced in MS lesions, suggesting that the CNS microenvironment is suited to activate the few infiltrating MAIT cells. Taken together, these data place MAIT cells from MS patients as minor components of the inflammatory pathological process.
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- Marion Salou
- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes University, Medicine Department, Nantes F-44035, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes University, Medicine Department, Nantes F-44035, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes Hospital, ITUN, Nantes F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes University, Medicine Department, Nantes F-44035, France; Nantes Hospital, ITUN, Nantes F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes Hospital, Department of Neurology, Nantes, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes University, Medicine Department, Nantes F-44035, France
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- SFR François Bonamy, Cellular and Tissue Imaging Core Facility (MicroPICell), Nantes, France
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- SFR François Bonamy, Cellular and Tissue Imaging Core Facility (MicroPICell), Nantes, France
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- Nantes Hospital, Institut des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif, CIC-04 Inserm, Nantes, France
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- Nantes Hospital, Department of Neurology, Nantes, France; INSERM 015, Centre d'Investigation Clinique, Nantes, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes Hospital, ITUN, Nantes F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes University, Medicine Department, Nantes F-44035, France; Nantes Hospital, ITUN, Nantes F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes Hospital, ITUN, Nantes F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064, Nantes F-44093, France; Nantes Hospital, Department of Neurology, Nantes, France; INSERM 015, Centre d'Investigation Clinique, Nantes, France.
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Teniente-Serra A, Grau-López L, Mansilla MJ, Fernández-Sanmartín M, Ester Condins A, Ramo-Tello C, Martínez-Cáceres E. Multiparametric flow cytometric analysis of whole blood reveals changes in minor lymphocyte subpopulations of multiple sclerosis patients. Autoimmunity 2016; 49:219-28. [PMID: 26829210 DOI: 10.3109/08916934.2016.1138271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to characterise the functionally relevant minor lymphocyte subpopulations in whole blood of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and their potential utility as biomarkers for treatment follow up. MATERIAL AND METHODS Peripheral blood from 40 healthy donors (HD) and 66 MS patients [23 relapsing-remitting (RRMS) without treatment, 27 RRMS undergoing treatment (16 IFN-β, 11 natalizumab), and 16 progressive forms (eight secondary progressive and eight primary progressive)] was analysed by multiparametric flow cytometry. RESULTS Untreated MS patients showed a decrease in early effector memory (CD45RA(-)CCR7(-)CD27(+)) CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells and an increase in Th17 lymphocytes in peripheral blood compared with HD. Regarding the effect of treatment, whereas no differences in relative percentages of cellular subpopulations were observed in patients under IFN-β treatment, those under treatment with natalizumab had an increased percentage of early effector memory CD4(+) (CD45RA(-)CCR7(-)CD27(+)), central memory CD8(+) (CD45RA(-)CCR7(+)CD27(+)) T cells, recent thymic emigrants (CD4(+) CD45RA(+)CCR7(+)CD27(+)CD31(+)PTK7(+)) and transitional B cells (CD19(+)CD27(-)CD24(hi)CD38(hi)). CONCLUSIONS Multiparametric flow cytometry analysis of whole blood is a robust, reproducible, and sensitive technology to monitor the effect of MS treatments even in minor lymphocyte subpopulations that might represent useful biomarkers of treatment response.
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- Aina Teniente-Serra
- a Immunology Division, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute (IGTP) , Campus Can Ruti , Badalona , Barcelona .,b Department of Cell Biology , Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , Bellaterra , Barcelona
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- c Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Department of Neurosciences. Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital , Badalona , Barcelona , and
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- a Immunology Division, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute (IGTP) , Campus Can Ruti , Badalona , Barcelona .,b Department of Cell Biology , Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , Bellaterra , Barcelona
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- d Flow Cytometry Facility, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) , Campus Can Ruti , Badalona , Barcelona , and
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- c Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Department of Neurosciences. Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital , Badalona , Barcelona , and
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- a Immunology Division, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute (IGTP) , Campus Can Ruti , Badalona , Barcelona .,b Department of Cell Biology , Physiology and Immunology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , Bellaterra , Barcelona
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Salou M, Nicol B, Garcia A, Laplaud DA. Involvement of CD8(+) T Cells in Multiple Sclerosis. Front Immunol 2015; 6:604. [PMID: 26635816 PMCID: PMC4659893 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Accepted: 11/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system characterized by focal demyelination patches associated with inflammatory infiltrates containing T lymphocytes. For decades, CD4(+) T cells have been recognized as playing a major role in the disease, especially in animal models, which has led to the development of several therapies. However, interest has recently developed in the involvement of CD8(+) T cells in MS following the analysis of infiltrating T cells in human brain lesions. A broad range of evidence now suggests that the pathological role of this T cell subset in MS may have been underestimated. In this review, we summarize the literature implicating CD8(+) T cells in the pathophysiology of MS. We present data from studies in the fields of genetics, anatomopathology and immunology, mainly in humans but also in animal models of MS. Altogether, this strongly suggests that CD8(+) T cells may be major effectors in the disease process, and that the development of treatments specifically targeting this subset would be germane.
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- Marion Salou
- UMR 1064, INSERM , Nantes , France ; Medicine Department, Nantes University , Nantes , France
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- UMR 1064, INSERM , Nantes , France ; Medicine Department, Nantes University , Nantes , France
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- UMR 1064, INSERM , Nantes , France ; ITUN, Nantes Hospital , Nantes , France
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- UMR 1064, INSERM , Nantes , France ; Department of Neurology, Nantes Hospital , Nantes , France ; Centre d'Investigation Clinique, INSERM 004 , Nantes , France
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Ignatius Arokia Doss PM, Roy AP, Wang A, Anderson AC, Rangachari M. The Non-Obese Diabetic Mouse Strain as a Model to Study CD8(+) T Cell Function in Relapsing and Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Front Immunol 2015; 6:541. [PMID: 26557120 PMCID: PMC4617102 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease resulting from an autoimmune attack on central nervous system (CNS) myelin. Although CD4+ T cell function in MS pathology has been extensively studied, there is also strong evidence that CD8+ T lymphocytes play a key role. Intriguingly, CD8+ T cells accumulate in great numbers in the CNS in progressive MS, a form of the disease that is refractory to current disease-modifying therapies that target the CD4+ T cell response. Here, we discuss the function of CD8+ T cells in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a mouse model of MS. In particular, we describe EAE in non-obese diabetic (NOD) background mice, which develop a pattern of disease characterized by multiple attacks and remissions followed by a progressively worsening phase. This is highly reminiscent of the pattern of disease observed in nearly half of MS patients. Particular attention is paid to a newly described transgenic mouse strain (1C6) on the NOD background whose CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are directed against the encephalitogenic peptide MOG[35–55]. Use of this model will give us a more complete picture of the role(s) played by distinct T cell subsets in CNS autoimmunity.
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- Department of Neurosciences, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval (Pavillon CHUL) , Québec, QC , Canada
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- Department of Neurosciences, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval (Pavillon CHUL) , Québec, QC , Canada
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- Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA ; Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval (Pavillon CHUL) , Québec, QC , Canada ; Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval , Québec, QC , Canada
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Martin-Blondel G, Pignolet B, Liblau RS. [Migration and pathogenicity of CD8 T cells in central nervous system diseases]. Med Sci (Paris) 2015; 31:748-55. [PMID: 26340834 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20153108013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The implication of CD8 T cells in infectious and inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system has received increasing attention. CD8 T cells are crucial players of the adaptive immune system against neurotropic infections, but can also trigger tissue damage. Here we review the molecular mechanisms used by CD8 T cells to migrate into the central nervous system, and describe diseases that imply CD8 T cell-mediated pathogenicity. We also suggest therapeutic strategies targeting this population.
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- Guillaume Martin-Blondel
- Département des maladies infectieuses et tropicales, hôpital universitaire de Toulouse, France - Inserm U1043, CNRS UMR 5282, centre de physiopathologie Toulouse-Purpan, hôpital Purpan, place du Docteur Baylac, 31024 Toulouse, France - Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, F-31000, France
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- Inserm U1043, CNRS UMR 5282, centre de physiopathologie Toulouse-Purpan, hôpital Purpan, place du Docteur Baylac, 31024 Toulouse, France - Département des neurosciences, hôpital universitaire de Toulouse, France
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- Inserm U1043, CNRS UMR 5282, centre de physiopathologie Toulouse-Purpan, hôpital Purpan, place du Docteur Baylac, 31024 Toulouse, France - Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, F-31000, France
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Changes in B and T-cell subsets and NMO-IgG/AQP-4 levels after immunoglobulins and rituximab treatment for an acute attack of neuromyelitis optica. NEUROLOGÍA (ENGLISH EDITION) 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nrleng.2013.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Multiple Sclerosis and T Lymphocytes: An Entangled Story. J Neuroimmune Pharmacol 2015; 10:528-46. [PMID: 25946987 DOI: 10.1007/s11481-015-9614-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2015] [Accepted: 04/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the prototypic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by multifocal areas of demyelination, axonal damage, activation of glial cells, and immune cell infiltration. Despite intensive years of research, the etiology of this neurological disorder remains elusive. Nevertheless, the abundance of immune cells such as T lymphocytes and their products in CNS lesions of MS patients supports the notion that MS is an immune-mediated disorder. An important body of evidence gathered from MS animal models such as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), points to the central contribution of CD4 T lymphocytes in disease pathogenesis. Both Th1 (producing interferon-γ) and Th17 (producing interleukin 17) CD4 T lymphocytes targeting CNS self-antigens have been implicated in MS and EAE pathobiology. Moreover, several publications suggest that CD8 T lymphocytes also participate in the development of MS lesions. The migration of activated T lymphocytes from the periphery into the CNS has been identified as a crucial step in the formation of MS lesions. Several factors promote such T cell extravasation including: molecules (e.g., cell adhesion molecules) implicated in the T cell-blood brain barrier interaction, and chemokines produced by neural cells. Finally, once in the CNS, T lymphocytes need to be reactivated by local antigen presenting cells prior to enter the parenchyma where they can initiate damage. Further investigations will be necessary to elucidate the impact of environmental factors (e.g., gut microbiota) and CNS intrinsic properties (e.g., microglial activation) on this inflammatory neurological disease.
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Salou M, Garcia A, Michel L, Gainche-Salmon A, Loussouarn D, Nicol B, Guillot F, Hulin P, Nedellec S, Baron D, Ramstein G, Soulillou JP, Brouard S, Nicot AB, Degauque N, Laplaud DA. Expanded CD8 T-cell sharing between periphery and CNS in multiple sclerosis. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2015; 2:609-22. [PMID: 26125037 PMCID: PMC4479522 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Accepted: 03/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Objective In multiple sclerosis (MS), central nervous system (CNS), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and blood display TCR clonal expansions of CD8+ T cells. These clones have been assumed – but never demonstrated – to be similar in the three compartments. Addressing this key question is essential to infer the implication of peripheral clonally expanded CD8+ T cells in the disease. Methods For the first time, TCR Vβ repertoire from paired blood (purified CD8+ and CD4+ T cells), CSF and CNS (22 lesions, various inflammatory and demyelination statuses) samples from three MS patients was studied using complementary determining region 3 (CDR3) spectratyping and high-throughput sequencing. In parallel, blood and CNS clonally expanded CD8+ T cells were characterized by fluorescent staining. Results TCR Vβ repertoire analysis revealed strong sharing of predominant T-cell clones between CNS lesions, CSF, and blood CD8+ T cells. In parallel, we showed that blood oligoclonal CD8+ T cells exhibit characteristics of pathogenic cells, as they displayed a bias toward a memory phenotype in MS patients, with increased expression of CCR5, CD11a and Granzyme B (GZM-B) compared to non oligoclonal counterparts. CNS-infiltrating T cells were mainly CD8 expressing CD11a and GZM-B. Interpretation This study highlights the predominant implication of CD8+ T cells in MS pathophysiology and demonstrates that potentially aggressive CD8+ T cells can be easily identified and characterized from blood and CSF samples.
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- Marion Salou
- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Medicine Department, Nantes University Nantes, F-44035, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Nantes Hospital, ITUN Nantes, F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Neurology Department, Nantes Hospital Nantes, F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Medicine Department, Nantes University Nantes, F-44035, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Medicine Department, Nantes University Nantes, F-44035, France
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- SFR François Bonamy, Cellular and Tissue Imaging Core Facility (MicroPICell) Nantes, F-44093, France
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- SFR François Bonamy, Cellular and Tissue Imaging Core Facility (MicroPICell) Nantes, F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Medicine Department, Nantes University Nantes, F-44035, France ; Nantes Hospital, ITUN Nantes, F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Nantes Hospital, ITUN Nantes, F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Medicine Department, Nantes University Nantes, F-44035, France ; Nantes Hospital, ITUN Nantes, F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Nantes Hospital, ITUN Nantes, F-44093, France
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- INSERM, UMR 1064 Nantes, F-44093, France ; Neurology Department, Nantes Hospital Nantes, F-44093, France ; INSERM 004, Centre d'Investigation Clinique Nantes, F-44093, France
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The role of CD8+ T cells in the process of autoimmune pathology has been both understudied and controversial. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) with underlying T cell-mediated immunopathology. CD8+ T cells are the predominant T cells in human MS lesions, showing oligoclonal expansion at the site of pathology. It is still unclear whether these cells represent pathogenic immune responses or disease-regulating elements. Through studies in human MS and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), we have discovered two novel CD8+ T cell populations that play an essential immunoregulatory role in disease: (1) MHC class Ia-restricted neuroantigen-specific "autoregulatory" CD8+ T cells and (2) glatiramer acetate (GA/Copaxone(®)) therapy-induced Qa-1/HLA-E-restricted GA-specific CD8+ T cells. These CD8+ Tregs suppress proliferation of pathogenic CD4+ CD25- T cells when stimulated by their cognate antigens. Similarly, CD8+ Tregs significantly suppress EAE when transferred either pre-disease induction or during peak disease. The mechanism of disease inhibition depends, at least in part, on an antigen-specific, contact-dependent process and works through modulation of CD4+ T cell responses as well as antigen-presenting cells through a combination of cytotoxicity and cytokine-mediated modulation. This review provides an overview of our understanding of CD8+ T cells in immune-mediated disease, focusing particularly on our findings regarding regulatory CD8+ T cells both in MS and in EAE. Clinical relevance of these novel CD8-regulatory populations is discussed, providing insights into a potentially intriguing, novel therapeutic strategy for these diseases.
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Spatola M, Du Pasquier RA. Immune system's role in viral encephalitis. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2014; 170:577-83. [PMID: 25189678 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2014.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 07/25/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Viral infections can be a major thread for the central nervous system (CNS), therefore, the immune system must be able to mount a highly proportionate immune response, not too weak, which would allow the virus to proliferate, but not too strong either, to avoid collateral damages. Here, we aim at reviewing the immunological mechanisms involved in the host defense in viral CNS infections. First, we review the specificities of the innate as well as the adaptive immune responses in the CNS, using several examples of various viral encephalitis. Then, we focus on three different modes of interactions between viruses and immune responses, namely human Herpes virus-1 encephalitis with the defect in innate immune response which favors this disease; JC virus-caused progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and the crucial role of adaptive immune response in this example; and finally, HIV infection with the accompanying low grade chronic inflammation in the CNS in some patients, which may be an explanation for the presence of cognitive disorders, even in some well-treated HIV-infected patients. We also emphasize that, although the immune response is generally associated with viral replication control and limited cellular death, an exaggerated inflammatory reaction can lead to tissue damage and can be detrimental for the host, a feature of the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS). We will briefly address the indication of steroids in this situation.
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- Service of Neurology, BH.10.131, Bugnon 44, 1010 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Service of Neurology, BH.10.131, Bugnon 44, 1010 Lausanne, Switzerland; Laboratory of neuro-immunology, Centre of clinical neurosciences, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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de Andrés C, Teijeiro R, Saiz A, Fernández P, Sánchez-Ramón S. Changes in B and T-cell subsets and NMO-IgG levels after immunoglobulins and rituximab treatment for an acute attack of neuromyelitis optica. Neurologia 2014; 30:276-82. [PMID: 24674779 DOI: 10.1016/j.nrl.2013.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2013] [Revised: 12/17/2013] [Accepted: 12/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence supporting that neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an inflammatory humoral mediated disorder associated with NMO-IgG/AQP-4 antibodies. However, little is known about the subsets of B cells and T cells that contribute to the pathogenesis or therapy response. OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical and immunological changes associated with intravenous immunoglobulins (IV-Igs) plus rituximab (RTX) in a patient with a severe acute attack of NMO and intrathecal synthesis of NMO-IgG/AQP-4, who previously did not respond to intravenous methylprednisolone and plasma exchange. METHODS We sequentially analysed the levels of NMO-IgG/AQP-4 by immunohistochemistry, and B and T cells subsets by multiparametric flow-cytometry, in the CSF and peripheral blood (PB), before and alter IV-Igs plus RTX therapy. RESULTS In the CSF before treatment, and compared with PB, there was a higher percentage of CD4(+) T cells and a lower percentage of CD8(+) T cells and CD19(+) B cells. After therapy, the percentage of CD4(+) T cells remained high, and that of CD8(+) T cells increased. The observed decrease in the percentage of CD19(+) B cells was lower than in the PB. When the CSF was compared, it was found that the percentage of effector-memory and effector CD8(+) T cells had increased after therapy, and that of IgM memory B cells and switched-memory B cells decreased. The observed changes paralleled the decrease of NMO-IgG/AQP-4 results to negative and the clinical improvement. CONCLUSIONS Our findings confirm that, besides intrathecal humoral immune response against AQP4, B and T cell subsets are involved in the modulation of inflammation within and outside the central nervous system.
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- C de Andrés
- Servicio de Neurología, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, España.
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- Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, España
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- Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Clínico e Institut d́Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, España
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- Servicio de Neuroradiología, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, España
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- Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, España
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Jilek S, Mathias A, Canales M, Lysandropoulos A, Pantaleo G, Schluep M, Du Pasquier RA. Natalizumab treatment alters the expression of T-cell trafficking marker LFA-1 α-chain (CD11a) in MS patients. Mult Scler 2013; 20:837-42. [PMID: 24258149 DOI: 10.1177/1352458513513208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2013] [Accepted: 10/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the long-term effect of natalizumab (NTZ) treatment on the expression of integrins and chemokine receptors involved in the migration of T cells towards the central nervous system (CNS). METHODS We drew the blood of 23 patients just before starting NTZ therapy and every 12 months thereafter, for up to 48 months of treatment. We assessed the ex-vivo expression of phenotype markers (CCR7 and CD45RA), CNS-addressing integrins (CD11a, CD49d and CD29) and chemokine receptors (CXCR3 and CCR6) in CD4+ or CD8+ T-cell subsets by flow cytometry. RESULTS As compared to the pre-NTZ values, there was a marked increase in central memory (CCR7+/CD45RA-) CD4+ T cells and in effector memory (CCR7-/CD45RA-) CD8+ T cells at 12 and 24 months. In addition to an expected downregulation of both VLA-4 subunits (CD49d/CD29), we also found decreased T-cell expression of CXCR3 at 12 months, and of CD11a (LFA-1 αL subunit) at 12 months, but mostly at 24 months of NTZ treatment. CONCLUSION Our data show a nadir of CD11a expression at 2 years of NTZ treatment, at the peak of incidence of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), indirectly suggesting that a lack of these molecules may play a role in the onset of PML in NTZ-treated patients.
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- Samantha Jilek
- Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Salou M, Elong Ngono A, Garcia A, Michel L, Laplaud DA. Immunité adaptative et physiopathologie de la sclérose en plaques. Rev Med Interne 2013; 34:479-86. [DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2013.03.327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2012] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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INTRODUCTION CD8(+) T cells were originally considered to exert a suppressive role in demyelinating disease because of bias toward the CD4(+) T cell-mediated experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, the most common multiple sclerosis (MS) model. However, recent studies of human MS lesion samples and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) provided compelling evidence about the pathogenic role of CD8(+) T cells. In this article, we discuss the theoretical roles of different CD8(+) T-cell subsets in MS. AREAS COVERED A revised focus from CD4(+) to CD8(+) T cell-mediated demyelinating disease is summarized. Clonal expansion of CD8(+) T cells in MS lesions and in vitro evidence that CD8(+) T cells injure every central nervous system (CNS) cell type and transect axons are discussed. The role of CD8(+) T cells in two animal models of MS and of regulatory, interleukin (IL)-17-secreting CD8(+) T cells is reviewed. Lastly, an overview about the pathogenic and/or beneficial role of various CD8(+) T-cell subsets is offered. EXPERT OPINION Growing evidence supports the pathogenic role of CD8(+) T cells. Clonally expanded CD8(+) T cells within MS lesions may damage the nervous system. Revealing the specific antigen is critical to design novel efficient treatments with minimal adverse effects. Increasing evidence exists for the role of regulatory, IL-17-secreting CD8(+) T cells in MS.
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Ortega SB, Kashi VP, Tyler AF, Cunnusamy K, Mendoza JP, Karandikar NJ. The disease-ameliorating function of autoregulatory CD8 T cells is mediated by targeting of encephalitogenic CD4 T cells in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2013; 191:117-26. [PMID: 23733879 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1300452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the CNS, and CD8 T cells are the predominant T cell population in MS lesions. Given that transfer of CNS-specific CD8 T cells results in an attenuated clinical demyelinating disease in C57BL/6 mice with immunization-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), we investigated the cellular targets and mechanisms of autoreactive regulatory CD8 T cells. In this study we report that myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein peptide (MOG35-55)-induced CD8 T cells could also attenuate adoptively transferred, CD4 T cell-mediated EAE. Whereas CD8(-/-) mice exhibited more severe EAE associated with increased autoreactivity and inflammatory cytokine production by myelin-specific CD4 T cells, this was reversed by adoptive transfer of MOG-specific CD8 T cells. These autoregulatory CD8 T cells required in vivo MHC class Ia (K(b)D(b)) presentation. Interestingly, MOG-specific CD8 T cells could also suppress adoptively induced disease using wild-type MOG35-55-specific CD4 T cells transferred into K(b)D(b-/-) recipient mice, suggesting direct targeting of encephalitogenic CD4 T cells. In vivo trafficking analysis revealed that autoregulatory CD8 T cells are dependent on neuroinflammation for CNS infiltration, and their suppression/cytotoxicity of MOG-specific CD4 T cells is observed both in the periphery and in the CNS. These studies provide important insights into the mechanism of disease suppression mediated by autoreactive CD8 T cells in EAE.
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- Sterling B Ortega
- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX 75390, USA
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Duan H, Luo Y, Hao H, Feng L, Zhang Y, Lu D, Xing S, Feng J, Yang D, Song L, Yan X. Soluble CD146 in cerebrospinal fluid of active multiple sclerosis. Neuroscience 2013; 235:16-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2012] [Revised: 12/20/2012] [Accepted: 01/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Jilek S, Schluep M, Harari A, Canales M, Lysandropoulos A, Zekeridou A, Pantaleo G, Du Pasquier RA. HLA-B7-restricted EBV-specific CD8+ T cells are dysregulated in multiple sclerosis. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2012; 188:4671-80. [PMID: 22461701 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1103100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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It was hypothesized that the EBV-specific CD8(+) T cell response may be dysregulated in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, possibly leading to a suboptimal control of this virus. To examine the CD8(+) T cell response in greater detail, we analyzed the HLA-A2-, HLA-B7-, and HLA-B8-restricted EBV- and CMV-specific CD8(+) T cell responses in a high number of MS patients and control subjects using tetramers. Content in cytolytic granules, as well as cytotoxic activity, of EBV- and CMV-specific CD8(+) T cells was assessed. We found that MS patients had a lower or a higher prevalence of HLA-A2 and HLA-B7, respectively. Using HLA class I tetramers in HLA-B7(+) MS patients, there was a higher prevalence of MS patients with HLA-B*0702/EBV(RPP)-specific CD8(+) T cells ex vivo. However, the magnitude of the HLA-B*0702/EBV(RPP)-specific and HLA-B*0702/CMV(TPR)-specific CD8(+) T cell response (i.e., the percentage of tetramer(+) CD8(+) T cells in a study subject harboring CD8(+) T cells specific for the given epitope) was lower in MS patients. No differences were found using other tetramers. After stimulation with the HLA-B*0702/EBV(RPP) peptide, the production of IL-2, perforin, and granzyme B and the cytotoxicity of HLA-B*0702/EBV(RPP)-specific CD8(+) T cells were decreased. Altogether, our findings suggest that the HLA-B*0702-restricted viral (in particular the EBV one)-specific CD8(+) T cell response is dysregulated in MS patients. This observation is particularly interesting knowing that the HLA-B7 allele is more frequently expressed in MS patients and considering that EBV is associated with MS.
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- Samantha Jilek
- Division of Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Denic A, Pirko I, Wootla B, Bieber A, Macura S, Rodriguez M. Deletion of beta-2-microglobulin ameliorates spinal cord lesion load and promotes recovery of brainstem NAA levels in a murine model of multiple sclerosis. Brain Pathol 2012; 22:698-708. [PMID: 22335434 DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2012.00576.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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We used genetic deletion of β2-microglobulin to study the influence of CD8(+) T cells on spinal cord demyelination, remyelination, axonal loss and brainstem N-acetyl aspartate levels during the acute and chronic phases of Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) infection. We used β2m(-/-) and β2m(+/+) B10.Q mice (of H-2(q) background) normally susceptible to TMEV-induced demyelination. Over the disease course, β2m(+/+) mice had increasing levels of demyelination and minimal late-onset remyelination. In contrast, β2m(-/-) mice had steady levels of demyelination from 45-390 dpi and remyelination was extensive and more complete. Early in the disease, brainstem NAA levels drop in both strains, but accordingly with remyelination and axonal preservation, NAA recover in β2m(-/-) mice despite equivalent brainstem pathology. At 270 dpi, β2m(+/+) mice had significantly fewer spinal cord axons than β2m(-/-) mice (up to 28% less). In addition, β2m(+/+) mice lost axons of all calibers, whereas β2m(-/-) mice had a modest loss of only medium- and large-caliber axons. This study further supports the hypothesis that CD8(+) T cells are involved in demyelination, and axonal loss following Theiler's virus-induced demyelination.
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Jain MR, Li Q, Liu T, Rinaggio J, Ketkar A, Tournier V, Madura K, Elkabes S, Li H. Proteomic identification of immunoproteasome accumulation in formalin-fixed rodent spinal cords with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Proteome Res 2012; 11:1791-803. [PMID: 22188123 DOI: 10.1021/pr201043u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Clinically relevant formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues have not been widely used in neuroproteomic studies because many proteins are presumed to be degraded during tissue preservation. Recent improvements in proteomics technologies, from the 2D gel analysis of intact proteins to the "shotgun" quantification of peptides and the use of isobaric tags for absolute and relative quantification (iTRAQ) method, have made the analysis of FFPE tissues possible. In recent years, iTRAQ has been one of the main methods of choice for high throughput quantitative proteomics analysis, which enables simultaneous comparison of up to eight samples in one experiment. Our objective was to assess the relative merits of iTRAQ analysis of fresh frozen versus FFPE nervous tissues by comparing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE)-induced proteomic changes in FFPE rat spinal cords and frozen tissues. EAE-induced proteomic changes in FFPE tissues were positively correlated with those found in the frozen tissues, albeit with ∼50% less proteome coverage. Subsequent validation of the enrichment of immunoproteasome (IP) activator 1 in EAE spinal cords led us to evaluate other proteasome and IP-specific proteins. We discovered that many IP-specific (as opposed to constitutive) proteasomal proteins were enriched in EAE rat spinal cords, and EAE-induced IP accumulation also occurred in the spinal cords of an independent mouse EAE model in a disability score-dependent manner. Therefore, we conclude that it is feasible to generate useful information from iTRAQ-based neuroproteomics analysis of archived FFPE tissues for studying neurological disease tissues.
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- Mohit Raja Jain
- Center For Advanced Proteomics Research and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center , 205 S. Orange Ave., Newark, New Jersey 07103, United States
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Saxena A, Martin-Blondel G, Mars LT, Liblau RS. Role of CD8 T cell subsets in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. FEBS Lett 2011; 585:3758-63. [PMID: 21910991 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.08.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2011] [Revised: 08/30/2011] [Accepted: 08/31/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system leading to demyelination and axonal/neuronal loss. Cumulating evidence points to a key role for CD8 T cells in this disabling disease. Oligoclonal CD8 T cells reside in demyelinating plaques where they are likely to contribute to tissue destruction. Histopathological analyses and compelling observations from animal models indicate that cytotoxic CD8 T cells target neural cell populations with the potential of causing lesions reminiscent of MS. However, CD8 T cell differentiation results in several subsets of effector CD8 T cells that could be differentially implicated in the mechanisms contributing to tissue damage. Moreover CD8 regulatory T cells arise as important populations involved in restoring immune homoeostasis and in maintaining immune privileged sites. Here we examine the current literature pertaining to the role of CD8 effector and regulatory T cell subsets in the pathogenesis of MS.
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- A Saxena
- INSERM U1043-CNRS UMR 5282, Centre de Physiopathologie Toulouse-Purpan, Toulouse, France
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Leech MD, Carrillo-Vico A, Liblau RS, Anderton SM. Recognition of a high affinity MHC class I-restricted epitope of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein by CD8⁺ T cells derived from autoantigen-deficient mice. Front Immunol 2011; 2:17. [PMID: 22566807 PMCID: PMC3342349 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2011.00017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2011] [Accepted: 05/13/2011] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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CD4⁺ T cells have a well-defined pathogenic role in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, the rodent model of multiple sclerosis (MS), yet CD8⁺ T cells are commonly found in MS lesions. To determine whether immunological tolerance might impact differently on CD4⁺ versus CD8⁺ T cells, we studied T cell responses in mice genetically deficient for the central nervous system (CNS) autoantigen myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) versus wild type (WT) C57BL/6 mice. We show that MOG(-/-) mice have enhanced sensitivity to immunization with the immunodominant peptide of MOG (35-55), as evidenced by increased expansion of both CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cell subsets. Most strikingly, CD8⁺ T cells from MOG(-/-) mice responded to a novel T cell epitope which binds to MHC class I with high affinity. Despite this, MOG-responsive CD8⁺ T cells sourced from either WT or MOG(-/-) mice failed to initiate CNS inflammation upon transfer to MOG-sufficient mice. In our hands, this capacity was only found in CD4⁺ T cells. However, MOG(-/-) CD4⁺ cells did not show greater pathogenic activity than their WT counterparts. Our data indicate that, in the presence of endogenous MOG, CD8⁺ T cells capable of responding to a MHC class I-restricted epitope that can be stably expressed are subject to rigorous control through central and/or peripheral tolerance.
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- Melanie D Leech
- Centre for Inflammation Research, Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research and Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
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Vitamin D has a direct immunomodulatory effect on CD8+ T cells of patients with early multiple sclerosis and healthy control subjects. J Neuroimmunol 2010; 233:240-4. [PMID: 21186064 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2010] [Revised: 11/14/2010] [Accepted: 11/16/2010] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Little is known on a putative effect of vitamin D on CD8+ T cells. Yet, these cells are involved in the immmunopathogenesis of MS. We assessed the cytokine profile of EBV-specific CD8+ T cells of 10 early MS patients and 10 healthy control subjects with or without 1,25(OH)(2)D(3) and found that, with 1,25(OH)(2)D(3), these cells secreted less IFN-γ and TNF-α and more IL-5 and TGF-β. CD4+ T cell depletion or even culture with CD8+ T cells only did not abolish the immunomodulatory effect of 1,25(OH)(2)D(3) on CD8+ T cells, suggesting that 1,25(OH)(2)D(3) can act directly on CD8+ T cells.
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Mars LT, Saikali P, Liblau RS, Arbour N. Contribution of CD8 T lymphocytes to the immuno-pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and its animal models. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2010; 1812:151-61. [PMID: 20637863 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2010.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2009] [Revised: 06/21/2010] [Accepted: 07/06/2010] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by multi-focal demyelination, axonal loss, and immune cell infiltration. Numerous immune mediators are detected within MS lesions, including CD4(+) and CD8(+) T lymphocytes suggesting that they participate in the related pathogenesis. Although CD4(+) T lymphocytes are traditionally considered the main actors in MS immunopathology, multiple lines of evidence suggest that CD8(+) T lymphocytes are also implicated in the pathogenesis. In this review, we outline the recent literature pertaining to the potential roles of CD8(+) T lymphocytes both in MS and its animal models. The CD8(+) T lymphocytes detected in MS lesions demonstrate characteristics of activated and clonally expanded cells supporting the notion that these cells actively contribute to the observed injury. Moreover, several experimental in vivo models mediated by CD8(+) T lymphocytes recapitulate important features of the human disease. Whether the CD8(+) T cells can induce or aggravate tissue destruction in the CNS needs to be fully explored. Strengthening our understanding of the pathogenic potential of CD8(+) T cells in MS should provide promising new avenues for the treatment of this disabling inflammatory disease.
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- Lennart T Mars
- INSERM, U563, Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan, Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse, F-31300, France; Université Toulouse III, Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse, F-31400, France
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Ramagopalan SV, Dobson R, Meier UC, Giovannoni G. Multiple sclerosis: risk factors, prodromes, and potential causal pathways. Lancet Neurol 2010; 9:727-39. [PMID: 20610348 DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(10)70094-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 331] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Jaquiéry E, Jilek S, Schluep M, Meylan P, Lysandropoulos A, Pantaleo G, Du Pasquier RA. Intrathecal immune responses to EBV in early MS. Eur J Immunol 2010; 40:878-87. [PMID: 20017197 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200939761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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EBV has been consistently associated with MS, but its signature in the CNS has rarely been examined. In this study, we assessed EBV-specific humoral and cellular immune responses in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with early MS, other inflammatory neurological diseases (OIND) and non-inflammatory neurological diseases (NIND). The neurotropic herpesvirus CMV served as a control. Virus-specific humoral immune responses were assessed in 123 consecutive patients and the intrathecal recruitment of virus-specific antibodies was expressed as antibody indexes. Cellular immune responses tested in the blood of 55/123 patients were positive in 46/55. The CD8(+) CTL responses of these 46 patients were assessed in the blood and CSF using a CFSE-based CTL assay. We found that viral capsid antigen and EBV-encoded nuclear antigen-1, but not CMV IgG antibody indexes, were increased in early MS as compared with OIND and NIND patients. There was also intrathecal enrichment in EBV-, but not CMV-specific, CD8(+) CTL in early MS patients. By contrast, OIND and NIND patients did not recruit EBV- nor CMV-specific CD8(+) CTL in the CSF. Our data, showing a high EBV-, but not CMV-specific intrathecal immune response, strengthen the association between EBV and MS, in particular at the onset of the disease.
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- Emilie Jaquiéry
- Service of Immunology and Allergy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Simon KC, van der Mei IAF, Munger KL, Ponsonby A, Dickinson J, Dwyer T, Sundström P, Ascherio A. Combined effects of smoking, anti-EBNA antibodies, and HLA-DRB1*1501 on multiple sclerosis risk. Neurology 2010; 74:1365-71. [PMID: 20375311 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3181dad57e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To examine the interplay between smoking, serum antibody titers to the Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigens (anti-EBNA), and HLA-DR15 on multiple sclerosis (MS) risk. METHODS Individual and pooled analyses were conducted among 442 cases and 865 controls from 3 MS case-control studies-a nested case-control study in the Nurses' Health Study/Nurses' Health Study II, the Tasmanian MS Study, and a Swedish MS Study. Conditional logistic regression models were used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs for the association between smoking, anti-EBNA titers, HLA-DR15, and MS risk. Study estimates were pooled using inverse variance weights to determine a combined effect and p value. RESULTS Among MS cases, anti-EBNA titers were significantly higher in ever smokers compared to never smokers. The increased risk of MS associated with high anti-EBNA Ab titers was stronger among ever smokers (OR = 3.9, 95% CI = 2.7-5.7) compared to never smokers (OR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.4-2.3; p for interaction = 0.001). The increased risk of MS associated with a history of smoking was no longer evident after adjustment for anti-EBNA Ab titers. No modification or confounding by HLA-DR15 was observed. The increased risk of MS associated with ever smoking was only observed among those who had high anti-EBNA titers (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 1.1-2.6). CONCLUSIONS Smoking appears to enhance the association between high anti-EBNA titer and increased multiple sclerosis (MS) risk. The association between HLA-DR15 and MS risk is independent of smoking. Further work is necessary to elucidate possible biologic mechanisms to explain this finding.
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- K C Simon
- Departments of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Johnson TA, Jirik FR, Fournier S. Exploring the roles of CD8+ T lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of autoimmune demyelination. Semin Immunopathol 2010; 32:197-209. [DOI: 10.1007/s00281-010-0199-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2009] [Accepted: 01/28/2010] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Aristimuño C, de Andrés C, Bartolomé M, de las Heras V, Martínez-Ginés ML, Arroyo R, Fernández-Cruz E, Sánchez-Ramón S. IFNbeta-1a therapy for multiple sclerosis expands regulatory CD8+ T cells and decreases memory CD8+ subset: a longitudinal 1-year study. Clin Immunol 2009; 134:148-57. [PMID: 19900844 DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2009.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2009] [Revised: 09/18/2009] [Accepted: 09/23/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The beneficial effects of interferon beta-1a (IFNbeta-1a) in multiple sclerosis (MS) remain only partially understood. CD8(+) T cells are key cells in MS pathogenesis that contribute to axonal damage in MS, whereas CD4(+) regulatory T cells (T(Reg)) and CD8(+) regulatory/suppressor T cells (Ts) play an important role in protecting against subsequent MS activity. We analysed ex vivo changes on T(Reg) and on the different subsets of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T lymphocytes, before IFNbeta-1a (Rebif) therapy and at 3, 6, and 12 months after treatment, in 23 MS patients and in 26 healthy controls. IFNbeta-1a significantly increased the proportions of CD4(+) T(Reg) and regulatory CD8(+) T cells (Tr). Memory CD8(+) T cells were significantly decreased after 1 year of treatment, maybe reflecting down-regulation of abnormally persistent systemic activation in MS patients. After 1 year of IFNbeta-1a, a direct correlation was observed between plasmacytoid dendritic cells and effector CD8(+) T cells.
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- Carol Aristimuño
- Department of Neurology, Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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Jilek S, Schluep M, Meylan P, Vingerhoets F, Guignard L, Monney A, Kleeberg J, Le Goff G, Pantaleo G, Du Pasquier RA. Strong EBV-specific CD8+ T-cell response in patients with early multiple sclerosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 131:1712-21. [PMID: 18550621 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awn108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), however, most studies examining the relationship between the virus and the disease have been based on serologies, and if EBV is linked to MS, CD8+ T cells are likely to be involved as they are important both in MS pathogenesis and in controlling viruses. We hypothesized that valuable information on the link between MS and EBV would be ascertained from the study of frequency and activation levels of EBV-specific CD8+ T cells in different categories of MS patients and control subjects. We investigated EBV-specific cellular immune responses using proliferation and enzyme linked immunospot assays, and humoral immune responses by analysis of anti-EBV antibodies, in a cohort of 164 subjects, including 108 patients with different stages of MS, 35 with other neurological diseases and 21 healthy control subjects. Additionally, the cohort were all tested against cytomegalovirus (CMV), another neurotropic herpes virus not convincingly associated with MS, nor thought to be deleterious to the disease. We corrected all data for age using linear regression analysis over the total cohorts of EBV- and CMV-infected subjects. In the whole cohort, the rate of EBV and CMV infections were 99% and 51%, respectively. The frequency of IFN-gamma secreting EBV-specific CD8+ T cells in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) was significantly higher than that found in patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RR-MS), secondary-progressive MS, primary-progressive MS, patients with other neurological diseases and healthy controls. The shorter the interval between MS onset and our assays, the more intense was the EBV-specific CD8+ T-cell response. Confirming the above results, we found that EBV-specific CD8+ T-cell responses decreased in 12/13 patients with CIS followed prospectively for 1.0 +/- 0.2 years. In contrast, there was no difference between categories for EBV-specific CD4+ T cell, or for CMV-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell responses. Anti-EBV-encoded nuclear antigen-1 (EBNA-1)-specific antibodies correlated with EBV-specific CD8+ T cells in patients with CIS and RR-MS. However, whereas EBV-specific CD8+ T cells were increased the most in early MS, EBNA-1-specific antibodies were increased in early as well as in progressive forms of MS. Our data show high levels of CD8+ T-cell activation against EBV--but not CMV--early in the course of MS, which support the hypothesis that EBV might be associated with the onset of this disease.
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- Samantha Jilek
- Division of Immunology and Allergy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Emmer A, Gerlach K, Staege MS, Kornhuber ME. Cerebral gene expression of superantigen encephalitis in the lewis rat induced by staphylococcal enterotoxin a. Scand J Immunol 2008; 67:464-72. [PMID: 18405324 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2008.02094.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Superantigens were suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of different autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis (MS). Previously, it was demonstrated that local expression of the superantigen, staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) in the brain of rats may lead to encephalitis which was amplified by using intravenous injection of concanavalin A (ConA)-activated splenocytes. In the present investigation, gene expression was studied in the rat brain 8 days after an injection of 50 mul of 1 mg/ml SEA or saline and 5 days after an intravenous injection of 1 x 10(7) ConA-activated spleen cells. Of 8800 genes investigated (Affymetrix, rat genome U34A), the expression of 106 genes was significantly and at least threefold increased with SEA, while the expression of 29 genes was decreased at least threefold. Increased gene expression was compatible with an intracerebral inflammatory response mediated by antigen-presenting cells and CD8+ T lymphocytes. Elevated chemokines comprised RANTES (CCL5), osteopontin, MCP-1 (CCL2) and CXCL10. Further, genes with increased expression were assigned to the extracellular matrix, microglia/macrophage cell elements, astrocytes (GFAP) and phagocytosis. There was considerable conformity between previously reported gene expression profiles for experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) or MS and the present findings. Our data are in line with the concept that T-cell superantigen locally expressed in the central nervous system induces an inflammatory response. Therefore, the study of gene expression profiles does not seem to allow clear conclusions with respect to the aetiology of central nervous system autoimmune diseases.
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- Department of Neurology, Martin-Luther-Universität-Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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Frausto RF, Crocker SJ, Eam B, Whitmire JK, Whitton JL. Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein peptide-induced experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and T cell responses are unaffected by immunoproteasome deficiency. J Neuroimmunol 2007; 192:124-33. [PMID: 17964666 PMCID: PMC2175388 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2007.09.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2007] [Revised: 09/21/2007] [Accepted: 09/21/2007] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The inoculation of MOG peptides into C57BL/6 mice induces CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, and recent work has shown that adoptive transfer of the latter population, after extensive in vitro stimulation, can cause EAE in naïve recipient mice. Herein, we have evaluated the incidence and severity of EAE, and the induction of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, following MOG peptide inoculation of wt mice and of LMP-2KO mice that lack an intact immunoproteasome, a cytoplasmic organelle that is induced by chronic inflammation and that may be important for the presentation of MHC class I epitopes to CD8(+) T cells. We report that EAE, evaluated by both clinical and histological criteria, is similar in LMP-2KO mice and wildtype C57B/6 mice (wt) in response to immunization with MOG peptides MOG(35-55) and MOG(40-54), suggesting that the immunoproteasome does not play a key role in the development of demyelinating disease. Furthermore, and consistent with previous reports, peptide-specific CD8(+) T cells were barely detectable in the CNS of peptide-immunized mice, although peptide-specific CD4(+) T cells were abundant. Therefore, we used a new technique to look for autoreactive CD8(+) T cells in MOG peptide-immunized mice, and we report the identification of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells that, as late as 19 days after peptide injection, are actively producing IFNgamma in vivo, in response to in vivo antigen contact.
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- *Corresponding author Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences Dept., SP30-2110, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA, Tel: 858-784-7090, FAX: 858-784-7380,
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