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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2021

Regulation of CTLA-4 and PD-L1 Expression in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Patients after Treatment with Fingolimod, IFNβ-1α, Glatiramer Acetate, and Dimethyl Fumarate Drugs.

Afshin Derakhshani, Zahra Asadzadeh, Hossein Safarpour, Patrizia Leone, Mahdi Abdoli Shadbad, Ali Heydari, Behzad Baradaran, Vito Racanelli

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Afshin DerakhshaniImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 516615731, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-3243-233X
Zahra AsadzadehImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 516615731, Iran.
Hossein SafarpourCellular and Molecular Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand 9717853577, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-9883-9186
Patrizia LeoneDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0904-1074
Mahdi Abdoli ShadbadImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 516615731, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-4865-8779
Ali HeydariDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9141-3809
Behzad BaradaranImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 516615731, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-8642-6795
Vito RacanelliDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70124 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8639-1940
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Bari Aldo Moro · ITBirjand University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of California, Merced · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that is characterized by inflammation which typically results in significant impairment in most patients. Immune checkpoints act as co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory molecules and play a fundamental role in keeping the equilibrium of the immune system. Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) and Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), as inhibitory immune checkpoints, participate in terminating the development of numerous autoimmune diseases, including MS. We assessed the CTLA-4 and PD-L1 gene expression in the different cell types of peripheral blood mononuclear cells of MS patients using single-cell RNA-seq data. Additionally, this study outlines how CTLA-4 and PD-L1 expression was altered in the PBMC samples of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients compared to the healthy group. Finally, it investigates the impact of various MS-related treatments in the CTLA-4 and PD-L1 expression to restrain autoreactive T cells and stop the development of MS autoimmunity.

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CTLA-4MSPBMCPD-L1single-cell RNA-seq

Identifiers

PMID34442365
PMCPMC8400811
OpenAlexW3183714709

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