Xiangyun Yin, Sophia Zhang, Ju Hyun Lee, Huiping Dong, George Mourgkos, Gordon Terwilliger, Aurora Kraus, Luiz Henrique Geraldo, Mathilde Poulet, Suzanne Fischer, Ting Zhou, Farrah Shalima Mohammed, Jiangbing Zhou, Yongfu Wang, Seth Malloy, Nicolas Rohner, Lokesh Sharma, Irene Salinas, Anne Eichmann, Jean-Leon Thomas, W Mark Saltzman, Anita Huttner, Caroline Zeiss, Aaron Ring, Akiko Iwasaki, Eric Song
The eye, an anatomical extension of the central nervous system (CNS), exhibits many molecular and cellular parallels to the brain. Emerging research demonstrates that changes in the brain are often reflected in the eye, particularly in the retina1 . Still, the possibility of an immunological nexus between the posterior eye and the rest of the CNS tissues remains unexplored. Here, studying immune responses to herpes simplex virus in the brain, we observed that intravitreal immunization protects mice against intracranial viral challenge...
February 28, 2024: Nature