The immunopathogenesis of narcolepsy type 1

RS Liblau, D Latorre, BR Kornum… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a chronic sleep disorder resulting from the loss of a
small population of hypothalamic neurons that produce wake-promoting hypocretin (HCRT; …

“World in motion”–emulsion adjuvants rising to meet the pandemic challenges

DT O'Hagan, R van der Most, RN Lodaya, M Coccia… - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
Emulsion adjuvants such as MF59 and AS03 have been used for more than two decades as
key components of licensed vaccines, with over 100 million doses administered to diverse …

Epigenetic silencing of selected hypothalamic neuropeptides in narcolepsy with cataplexy

A Seifinejad, M Ramosaj, L Shan, S Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Narcolepsy with cataplexy is a sleep disorder caused by deficiency in the hypothalamic
neuropeptide hypocretin/orexin (HCRT), unanimously believed to result from autoimmune …

[HTML][HTML] Autoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells acquire an exhausted phenotype and persist in human antigen-specific autoimmune diseases

C Saggau, P Bacher, D Esser, M Rasa, S Meise… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Pro-inflammatory autoantigen-specific CD4+ T helper (auto-Th) cells are central
orchestrators of autoimmune diseases (AIDs). We aimed to characterize these cells in …

Guillain-Barré syndrome: expanding the concept of molecular mimicry

JD Laman, R Huizinga, GJ Boons, BC Jacobs - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapidly progressive, monophasic, and potentially
devastating immune-mediated neuropathy in humans. Preceding infections trigger the …

Predicting cross-reactivity and antigen specificity of T cell receptors

CH Lee, M Salio, G Napolitani, G Ogg… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Adaptive immune recognition is mediated by specific interactions between heterodimeric T
cell receptors (TCRs) and their cognate peptide-MHC (pMHC) ligands, and the methods to …

Narcolepsy: a model interaction between immune system, nervous system, and sleep-wake regulation

D Latorre, F Sallusto, CLA Bassetti… - Seminars in …, 2022 - Springer
Narcolepsy is a rare chronic neurological disorder characterized by an irresistible excessive
daytime sleepiness and cataplexy. The disease is considered to be the result of the selective …

Advances in adjuvanted influenza vaccines

S Shichinohe, T Watanabe - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The numerous influenza infections that occur every year present a major public health
problem. Influenza vaccines are important for the prevention of the disease; however, their …

Enhanced influenza A H1N1 T cell epitope recognition and cross-reactivity to protein-O-mannosyltransferase 1 in Pandemrix-associated narcolepsy type 1

A Vuorela, TL Freitag, K Leskinen, H Pessa… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a chronic neurological disorder having a strong
association with HLA-DQB1* 0602, thereby suggesting an immunological origin. Increased …

Broadly recognized, cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 CD4 T cell epitopes are highly conserved across human coronaviruses and presented by common HLA alleles

A Becerra-Artiles, JM Calvo-Calle, PP Nanaware… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Sequence homology between SARS-CoV-2 and common-cold human coronaviruses
(HCoVs) raises the possibility that memory responses to prior HCoV infection can affect T …