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Vagus Nerve Stimulation: A Personalized Therapeutic Approach for Crohn’s and Other Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

open access: yesCells, 2022
Inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are incurable autoimmune diseases characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.
Giovanni Cirillo   +8 more
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Gene therapy in autoimmune, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system [PDF]

open access: yesGene Therapy, 2003
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS), where suspected autoimmune attack causes nerve demyelination and progressive neurodegeneration and should benefit from both anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective strategies. Although neuroprotection strategies are relatively unexplored in MS, systemic delivery of
David, Baker, D J R, Hankey
openaire   +2 more sources

The privilege of immunity in immune privileged organs: The case of the eye

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2012
Understanding of ocular diseases and the search for their cure have been based on the common assumption that the eye is an immune privileged site, and the consequent conclusion that entry of immune cells to this organ is forbidden.
lnbal eBenhar   +2 more
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Induced Stem Cells as a Novel Multiple Sclerosis Therapy. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Stem cell replacement is providing hope for many degenerative diseases that lack effective therapeutic methods including multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Transplantation of neural stem cells or
Guan, Yang-Tai   +3 more
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Management of disease-modifying treatments in neurological autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system [PDF]

open access: yesClinical and Experimental Immunology, 2014
Summary The therapeutic armamentarium for autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system, specifically multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica, is steadily increasing, with a large spectrum of immunomodulatory and immunosuppressive agents targeting different mechanisms of the immune system.
A, Salmen, R, Gold, A, Chan
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A case of Aicardi-Goutières syndrome caused by TREX1 gene mutation

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS) is a rare genetic disorder involving the central nervous system and autoimmune abnormalities, leading to severe intellectual and physical disability with poor prognosis.
Zheng Chenhan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research progress of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy

open access: yesChinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2022
Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy (GFAP ⁃ A) is a novel autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system first reported in 2016.
WANG Wen⁃wen, LI Mei
doaj   +1 more source

Functional diversity of chemokines and chemokine receptors in response to viral infection of the central nervous system. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Encounters with neurotropic viruses result in varied outcomes ranging from encephalitis, paralytic poliomyelitis or other serious consequences to relatively benign infection.
A. Meyer   +108 more
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Familial Occurrence of Multiple Sclerosis with Thyroid Disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Multiple sclerosis (MS) has some features which suggest it is an autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases frequently occur in families, and patients and families often have more than one type of autoimmune disease.
Alexander   +33 more
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Emerging immunopharmacological targets in multiple sclerosis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Inflammatory demyelination of the central nervous system (CNS) is the hallmark of multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic debilitating disease that affects more than 2.5 million individuals worldwide. It has been widely accepted, although not proven, that the
Abdolmohamad Rostami   +182 more
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