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ReviewBrain : a journal of neurology2013

Natural killer cells and their receptors in multiple sclerosis.

Gurman Kaur, John Trowsdale, Lars Fugger

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Review in Brain : a journal of neurology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Immune reconstitution and tolerance-inducing therapies as promising therapeutic approaches in multiple sclerosis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  4. Natural Killer Cells: Dual Regulators and Therapeutic Targets in Multiple Sclerosis Immunopathogenesis.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2026
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  6. Brain communications · 2025
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  8. Natural killer cells in multiple sclerosis: foe or friends?Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2025
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  19. The immunology of multiple sclerosis.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gurman KaurMRC Human Immunology Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK.
John Trowsdale
Lars Fugger
John Radcliffe Hospital · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0901682Medical Research Council G1000800IMedical Research Council MC_UU_12010/3Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune system has crucial roles in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. While the adaptive immune cell subsets, T and B cells, have been the main focus of immunological research in multiple sclerosis, it is now important to realize that the innate immune system also has a key involvement in regulating autoimmune responses in the central nervous system. Natural killer cells are innate lymphocytes that play vital roles in a diverse range of infections. There is evidence that they influence a number of autoimmune conditions. Recent studies in multiple sclerosis and its murine model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, are starting to provide some understanding of the role of natural killer cells in regulating inflammation in the central nervous system. Natural killer cells express a diverse range of polymorphic cell surface receptors, which interact with polymorphic ligands; this interaction controls the function and the activation status of the natural killer cell. In this review, we discuss evidence for the role of natural killer cells in multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. We consider how a change in the balance of signals received by the natural killer cell influences its involvement in the ensuing immune response, in relation to multiple sclerosis.

Indexed as

Multiple SclerosisAnimalsAntigens, CDCentral Nervous SystemDisease Models, AnimalHumansImmune SystemKiller Cells, NaturalReceptors, KIRAntigens, CDReceptors, KIRhuman leukocyte antigenkiller cell immunoglobulin-like receptorsmultiple sclerosisnatural killer cell receptorsnatural killer cells

Identifiers

PMID22734127
PMCPMC3754456
OpenAlexW1984266541

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