B cell depletion therapies in autoimmune disease: advances and mechanistic insights

DSW Lee, OL Rojas, JL Gommerman - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
In the past 15 years, B cells have been rediscovered to be not merely bystanders but rather
active participants in autoimmune aetiology. This has been fuelled in part by the clinical …

The immune response in multiple sclerosis

S Rodríguez Murúa, MF Farez… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative
disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). MS is characterized by immune …

B cells in multiple sclerosis—from targeted depletion to immune reconstitution therapies

MT Cencioni, M Mattoscio, R Magliozzi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Increasing evidence indicates the involvement of B cells in the pathogenesis of multiple
sclerosis (MS), but their precise roles are unclear. In this Review, we provide an overview of …

Epidemiology and pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis

M Ward, MD Goldman - CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
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Role of B cells in multiple sclerosis and related disorders

G Comi, A Bar‐Or, H Lassmann, A Uccelli… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The success of clinical trials of selective B‐cell depletion in patients with relapsing multiple
sclerosis (MS) and primary progressive MS has led to a conceptual shift in the …

Cellular immunology of relapsing multiple sclerosis: interactions, checks, and balances

A Bar-Or, R Li - The Lancet Neurology, 2021 - thelancet.com
Novel insights from basic and translational studies are resha** concepts of the
immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and understanding of the different inflammatory …

Rituximab for the treatment of multiple sclerosis: a review

CG Chisari, E Sgarlata, S Arena, S Toscano, M Luca… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
In the last decades, evidence suggesting the direct or indirect involvement of B cells on
multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis has accumulated. The increased amount of data on …

Progressive multiple sclerosis: from pathogenic mechanisms to treatment

J Correale, MI Gaitán, MC Ysrraelit, MP Fiol - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
During the past decades, better understanding of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
disease mechanisms have led to the development of several disease-modifying therapies …

Reassessing B cell contributions in multiple sclerosis

R Li, KR Patterson, A Bar-Or - Nature immunology, 2018 - nature.com
There is growing recognition that B cell contributions to normal immune responses extend
well beyond their potential to become antibody-producing cells, including roles at the innate …

B and T cells driving multiple sclerosis: identity, mechanisms and potential triggers

J Van Langelaar, L Rijvers, J Smolders… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Historically, multiple sclerosis (MS) has been viewed as being primarily driven by T cells.
However, the effective use of anti-CD20 treatment now also reveals an important role for B …