ReviewFrontiers in ophthalmology2022
Immune Privilege Furnishes a Niche for Latent Infection.
Review in Frontiers in ophthalmology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Infection control in the brain and the eye.Acta ophthalmologica · 2026Review
- Phosphorylated TYK2 orchestrates the pathogenic program of CD4 + T cells in the development of CNS autoimmunity.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
- The Immune Biology of the Adrenal Gland Microenvironment and Its Role in Metastatic Progression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- The immune system as a regulator of normal physiology.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Deciphering Host-Virus Interactions and Advancing Therapeutics for Chronic Viral Infection.Viruses · 2025Review
- The prospective outcome of the monkeypox outbreak in 2022 and characterization of monkeypox disease immunobiology.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- Monkeypox: disease epidemiology, host immunity and clinical interventions.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2022Review
- Myofibroblasts persist through immune privilege mechanisms to mediate oral submucous fibrosis: Uncovering the pathogenesis.Journal of oral biology and craniofacial researchReview
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Abstract
The microenvironment of the CNS (eye and brain) is fertile ground for infection if the barriers are breached. The result of pathogen invasion is often devastating destruction of tissues. In the eye, inflammation is broadly classified either as "infectious" (i.e. caused by infection) or "non-infectious". However, increasingly, forms of intraocular inflammation (IOI), which clinically appear to be "non-infectious" turn out to be initiated by infectious agents, suggesting that pathogens have been retained in latent or persistent form within ocular tissues and have reactivated to cause overt disease. A similar pathogenesis applies to latent infections in the brain. Not all CNS tissues provide an equally protective niche while different pathogens escape detection using different strategies. This review summarises how immune privilege (IP) in the CNS may be permissive for latent infection and allow the eye and the brain to act as a reservoir of pathogens which often remain undetected for the lifetime of the host but in states of immune deficiency may be activated to cause sight- and life-threatening inflammation.
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