id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-311845-wnk7itha Lubetzki, Catherine Demyelination in multiple sclerosis 2014-02-05 .txt text/plain 7400 345 37 Whereas multiple sclerosis was long considered as a T cell-mediated disease, the role of B lymphocytes is now increasingly recognized, and the influence of antibodies on tissue damage actively investigated. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is generally considered as an autoimmune disease, in which autoreactive T cells enter the central nervous system (CNS) from the peripheral circulation and induce an inflammatory cascade resulting in demyelination and axonal loss. Nevertheless, vesicular disruption of myelin seen in highly active MS lesions was found to be associated with anti-MOG and MBP antibodies, suggesting that demyelination might be causally related to the deposition of antigen-specific autoantibodies (Genain et al., 1999) . Recent findings have suggested that, following a primary oligodendrocyte or myelin injury, local APCs could process myelin antigens and traffic from the CNS to secondary lymphoid organs, where they may induce or enhance an adaptive demyelinating immune reaction. ./cache/cord-311845-wnk7itha.txt ./txt/cord-311845-wnk7itha.txt