Oligoclonal expansion of memory CD8+ T cells in cerebrospinal fluid from multiple sclerosis patients

Brain

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 538-550

  Jacobsen, Marc ^a   Cepok, Sabine ^a   Quak, Elfriede ^a   Happel, Michael ^a   Gaber, Rami ^a   Ziegler, Andreas ^a   Schock, Sabine ^a   Oertel, Wolfgang H ^a   Sommer, Norbert ^a   Hemmer, Bernhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clonal expansion; Multiple sclerosis; Neuroimmunology; T cell receptors

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; MEMORY CELL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0036191549     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf059     Document Type: Article

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