Viral infections have long been implicated as triggers of autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS), a central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory demyelinating disorder. Epitope spreading, molecular mimicry, cryptic antigen, and bystander activation have been implicated as mechanisms responsible for activating self-reactive (SR) immune cells, ultimately leading to organ-specific aut...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disorder of central nervous system. This demyelinating disease affects more than 2.3 million people world wild. Most of patients are young adult. There are many possible triggering factors including infections, toxin, immunization, trauma, sunlight exposure and hormonal variable in pathogenesis of MS. One of the important trigger is stress. There ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that targets the myelin of the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. The inciting trigger that activates this immune response is unknown. Primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma is usually a diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that originates in the brain, spinal cord, leptomeninges, or eyes. We report a 33-year-old patient who was ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system of presumed autoimmune etiology. One of the best animal models of demyelinating diseases is experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), which can be induced in a variety of animals by injection of a target antigen such as myelin basic protein (MBP). The immune responses against the target amino acids caus...

Oligodendroglial markers in the cuprizone model of CNS de-and remyelination. Mesenchymal stem cells do not exert direct beneficial effects on CNS remyelination in the absence of the peripheral immune system. Results of this thesis were presented in the following scientific meetings: Influence of mesenchymal stem cells on the remyelination process in the cuprizone murine model. Influence of mese...

Macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF), a condition newly recognized in France, is manifested by diffuse myalgias and characterized by highly specific myopathological alterations which have recently been shown to represent an unusually persistent local reaction to intramuscular injections of aluminium-containing vaccines. Among 92 MMF patients recognized so far, eight of them, which included the seven ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the nature and cause in eight black South African patients of a recurrent (multiphasic), remitting, and relapsing demyelinating disease of the CNS. METHODS The clinical and laboratory investigations and radiological manifestations of these patients were documented. RESULTS Each patient had two or more acute attacks of demyelinating disease affecting the CNS. The cl...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory demyelinating disease of central nervous system (CNS) is an inflammatory disease characterized by a high childbearing female predominance. Labor-related alterations for postpartum demyelinating attacks are not entirely clear. This study aimed to summarize clinical features of female patients of reproductive age with initial CNS inflammatory demyelinating attacks during p...