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A Haystack Heuristic for Autoimmune Disease Biomarker Discovery Using Next-Gen Immune Repertoire Sequencing Data. [PDF]

, 2017
Large-scale DNA sequencing of immunological repertoires offers an opportunity for the discovery of novel biomarkers for autoimmune disease. Available bioinformatics techniques however, are not adequately suited for elucidating possible biomarker ...
Apeltsin, Leonard, Sirota, Marina, von Büdingen, H-Christian, Wang, Shengzhi   +3 more
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Low Incidence of Relapses After Vaccination in Anti‐Aquaporin‐4 Antibody‐Positive NMOSD

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) may experience increased signs and symptoms of their underlying disease when vaccinated against meningococcal disease before receiving complement component 5 inhibitor therapies. This retrospective analysis indicated an overall low relapse incidence (mean [range], 3.3% [0.7%–10.6 ...
Sean J. Pittock, Jin Nakahara, Becky Parks, Kerstin Allen, Sami Fam   +4 more
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Aquaporin 4 expression is downregulated in large bovine ovarian follicles

Journal of Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology, 2020
Aquaporin channels (AQPs) are known to play an important role in the development of ovarian follicles through their function in water transport pathways. Compared to other AQPs, research on the role of AQP4 in female reproductive physiology, particularly
Chang-Woon Kim, Eun-Ju Choi, Eun-Jin Kim, Adrian S. Siregar, Jaehee Han, Dawon Kang   +5 more
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Review: ‘Gimme five’: future challenges in multiple sclerosis. ECTRIMS Lecture 2009 [PDF]

, 2010
This article is based on the ECTRIMS lecture given at the 25th ECTRIMS meeting which was held in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 9 to 12 September 2009. Five challenges have been identified: (1) safeguarding the principles of medical ethics; (2) optimizing the
Bartholomaus I., Ben-Nun A., Bennett JL, Bielekova B., Bradl M., Chabas D., De Jager PL, De Jager PL, Dornmair K., Ferguson B., Flügel A., Frischer JM, Gold R., Gregersen JW, Han MH, Hohlfeld R., Hohlfeld R., Junker A., Kerschensteiner M., Kerschensteiner M., Kinoshita M., Korn T., Krishnamoorthy G., Kuhlmann T., Kümpfel T., Kümpfel T., Kümpfel T., Lennon VA, Linington C., Lock C., Mathey EK, Misgeld T., Platten M., Pollinger B., Polman CH, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Schluesener HJ, Seitz S., Sobottka B., Stadelmann C., Trapp BD, Trapp BD, Wiendl H., Wiendl H., Zipp F.   +44 more
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New isoforms of rat Aquaporin-4

Genomics, 2008
Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is a brain aquaporin implicated in the pathophysiology of numerous clinical conditions including brain edema. Here we show that rat AQP4 has six cDNA isoforms, formed by alternative splicing. These are named AQP4a-f, where AQP4a and AQP4c correspond to the two classical M1 and M23 isoforms, respectively.
Moe, Svein Erik, Sorbo, Jan Gunnar, Søgaard, Rikke, Zeuthen, Thomas, Petter Ottersen, Ole, Holen, Torgeir   +5 more
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Minimally Clinically Important Difference of the Clinical Assessment Scale in Autoimmune Encephalitis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Clinical Assessment Scale in Autoimmune Encephalitis (CASE) tracks disease severity in autoimmune encephalitis (AE), but no threshold for significant change exists. We aimed to determine the minimally clinically important difference (MCID) for CASE.
Yihui Goh, Yoon Hee Shin, Soo Hyun Ahn, Su Yee Mon, Soo Jean Shin, Woo‐Jin Lee, Yoonhyuk Jang, Myoung‐Jin Jang, Soon‐Tae Lee   +8 more
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Alleviation of Cerebral Infarction of Rats With Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion by Inhibition of Aquaporin 4 in the Supraoptic Nucleus

ASN Neuro, 2020
In ischemic stroke, vasopressin hypersecretion is a critical factor of cerebral swelling and brain injury. To clarify neural mechanisms underlying ischemic stroke-evoked vasopressin hypersecretion, we observed the effect of unilateral permanent middle ...
Dan Cui, Shuwei Jia, Jiawei Yu, Dongyang Li, Tong Li, Yang Liu, Jinlong Chang, Xiaoran Wang, Xiaoyu Liu, Yu-Feng Wang   +9 more
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Dual-function injectable angiogenic biomaterial for the repair of brain tissue following stroke. [PDF]

, 2018
Stroke is the primary cause of disability due to the brain's limited ability to regenerate damaged tissue. After stroke, an increased inflammatory and immune response coupled with severely limited angiogenesis and neuronal growth results in a stroke ...
Carmichael, S Thomas, Gojgini, Shiva, Nih, Lina R, Segura, Tatiana   +3 more
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Understanding Further the Phenotypic Spectrum of Central Nervous System Inflammatory Demyelinating Disorders Using Unsupervised Clustering

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory demyelinating syndromes, including multiple sclerosis (MS), aquaporin‐4 antibody–positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4 + NMOSD), and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody–associated disease (MOGAD), occasionally overlap.
Bade Gulec, Elif Everest, Melih Tutuncu, Ugur Bilge, Sabahattin Saip, Ugur Uygunoglu, Aksel Siva   +6 more
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Induction of Paralysis and Visual System Injury in Mice by T Cells Specific for Neuromyelitis Optica Autoantigen Aquaporin-4. [PDF]

, 2017
While it is recognized that aquaporin-4 (AQP4)-specific T cells and antibodies participate in the pathogenesis of neuromyelitis optica (NMO), a human central nervous system (CNS) autoimmune demyelinating disease, creation of an AQP4-targeted model with ...
Cruz-Herranz, Andrés, Green, Ari J, Ho, Peggy P, Sagan, Sharon A, Sobel, Raymond A, Spencer, Collin M, Steinman, Lawrence, Zamvil, Scott S   +7 more
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