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A J Ligocki1, L Lovato, D Xiang, P Guidry, R H Scheuermann, S N Willis, S Almendinger, M K Racke, E M Frohman, D A Hafler, K C O'Connor, N L Monson.
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B cells isolated from the CSF of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a unique accumulation of somatic hypermutation within the B cell receptor, termed the antibody gene signature (AGS). The focus of this study was to investigate whether the AGS could also be detected in MS brain tissue. Genetic analysis of B cells isolated from post-mortem CNS tissue samples from four MS brains demonstrated that signature enriched B cells are present at the site of tissue injury as well as in the circulating CSF.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20655601 PMCID: PMC2937103 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.06.016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neuroimmunol ISSN: 0165-5728 Impact factor: 3.478