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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2024

Life history of a brain autoreactive T cell: From thymus through intestine to blood-brain barrier and brain lesion.

Naoto Kawakami, Hartmut Wekerle

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Gut microbiota dysbiosis and neurologic diseases: New Horizon with potential diagnostic and therapeutic impact.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Naoto KawakamiInstitute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, University Hospital, LMU Munich and Biomedical Center (BMC), Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany. Electronic address: naoto.kawakami@med.uni-muenchen.de.
Hartmut WekerleInstitute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, University Hospital, LMU Munich and Biomedical Center (BMC), Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany; Emeritus Group Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute of Biological Intelligence, Germany. Electronic address: hartmut.wekerle@bi.mpg.de.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain antigen-specific autoreactive T cells seem to play a key role in inducing inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS), a characteristic feature of human multiple sclerosis (MS). These T cells are generated within the thymus, where they escape negative selection and become integrated into the peripheral immune repertoire of immune cells. Typically, these autoreactive T cells rest in the periphery without attacking the CNS. When autoimmune T cells enter gut-associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), they may be stimulated by the microbiota and its metabolites. After activation, the cells migrate into the CNS through the blood‒brain barrier, become reactivated upon interacting with local antigen-presenting cells, and induce inflammatory lesions within the brain parenchyma. This review describes how microbiota influence autoreactive T cells during their life, starting in the thymus, migrating through the periphery and inducing inflammation in their target organ, the CNS.

Indexed as

Blood-Brain BarrierBrainThymus GlandT-LymphocytesAnimalsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansIntestinesMultiple SclerosisAutoimmunityCentral nervous systemCNS-specific T cellsExperimental autoimmune encephalomyelitisMicrobiota

Identifiers

PMID39237437
PMCPMC11585894

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