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Trial reportFrontiers in immunology2019

Lymphoid Aggregates in the CNS of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Patients Lack Regulatory T Cells.

Luisa Bell, Alexander Lenhart, Andreas Rosenwald, Camelia M Monoranu, Friederike Berberich-Siebelt

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Frontiers in immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Cortical Lesions Form Predominantly in Early Multiple Sclerosis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
    Article
  4. The CNS Meninges and the Synovial Joint: Parallel Immunological Structures in Autoimmune Disease.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  10. Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Central Nervous System Disorders.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
    Review
  11. Current Knowledge about CD3International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Review
  12. Oligoclonal CD4Communications biology · 2024
    Article
  13. Article
  14. CNS autoimmune response in the MAM/pilocarpine rat model of epileptogenic cortical malformation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
    Article
  15. The Impact of Aging on Multiple Sclerosis.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2024
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luisa BellInstitute of Pathology, Julius-Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
Alexander LenhartInstitute of Pathology, Julius-Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
Andreas RosenwaldInstitute of Pathology, Julius-Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
Camelia M MonoranuDepartment of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, Julius-Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
Friederike Berberich-SiebeltInstitute of Pathology, Julius-Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
University of Würzburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In gray matter pathology of multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration associates with a high degree of meningeal inflammatory activity. Importantly, ectopic lymphoid follicles (eLFs) were identified at the inflamed meninges of patients with progressive multiple sclerosis. Besides T lymphocytes, they comprise B cells and might elicit germinal center (GC)-like reactions. GC reactions are controlled by FOXP3

Indexed as

Central Nervous SystemGerminal CenterMultiple SclerosisPlasma CellsAntigens, CDCell AggregationFemaleHumansMaleT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAntigens, CDectopic lymphoid folliclelymphoid aggregatemeningeal inflammationNFATc1progressive multiple sclerosisT-follicular regulatory cell

Identifiers

PMID32010141
PMCPMC6974514
OpenAlexW3000658061

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