Antoine Philippe Fournier, Stephanie Zandee, Marc Charabati, Evelyn Peelen, Olivier Tastet, Jorge Ivan Alvarez, Hania Kebir, Lyne Bourbonnière, Sandra Larouche, Boaz Lahav, Wendy Klement, Fiona Tea, Alain Bouthillier, Robert Moumdjian, Romain Cayrol, Pierre Duquette, Marc Girard, Catherine Larochelle, Nathalie Arbour, Alexandre Prat
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In multiple sclerosis (MS), peripheral immune cells use various cell trafficking molecules to infiltrate the CNS where they cause damage.The objective of this study was to investigate the involvement of coxsackie and adenovirus receptor-like membrane protein (CLMP) in the migration of immune cells into the CNS of patients with MS. METHODS: Expression of CLMP was measured in primary cultures of human brain endothelial cells (HBECs) and human meningeal endothelial cells (HMECs), postmortem brain samples, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from patients with MS and controls by RNA sequencing, quantitative PCR, immunohistochemistry, and flow cytometry...
November 2022: Neurology® Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation