Browsing by Subject "Autoimmunity"
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Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis as a model of Multiple Sclerosis : pathogenesis of atypical disease and tolerance induction in chronic progressive disease
(East Carolina University, 2015)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) of putative autoimmune origin characterized by focal inflammatory lesions together with demyelinating plaques in the ... -
NOVEL BIOLOGICS PROMOTE STABLE EXPANSION OF REGULATORY CD25HIGH FOXP3+ T LYMPHOCYTES AS A MEANS FOR AN ADOPTIVE CELL-BASED IMMUNOTHERAPY
(East Carolina University, 2021-06-18)Autoimmune disease arises when a breakdown in immunological self-tolerance causes self-reactive tissue destruction. In Multiple Sclerosis (MS), myelin reactive CD4+ T cells initiate an immune attack on the myelin sheath ...