Close Encounters of the First Kind: Innate Sensors and Multiple Sclerosis

Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 101-114

  Fernández Paredes, Lidia ^a   de Diego, Rebeca Pérez ^b   de Andrés, Clara ^c   Sánchez Ramón, Silvia ^a,d  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dysregulation; Infectious; Innate immunity; Multiple sclerosis; Pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs); Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; CRYOPYRIN; DACLIZUMAB; GLATIRAMER; INTERLEUKIN 10; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MASP3 PROTEIN; NATALIZUMAB; NOD LIKE RECEPTOR P3; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; TRIGGERING RECEPTOR EXPRESSED ON MYELOID CELLS 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTACOID;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERFERON-BETA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84953234308     PISSN: 08937648     EISSN: 15591182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-015-9665-5     Document Type: Review

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