This appreciation for the brain's ability to stimulate the immune system was realized by a pioneering study by Tracey and colleagues at the turn of the century when they showcased the vagus nerve's ...

Impact of Infections and Pathogens on Neurological Diseases Infectious agents, despite the brain's immune privilege, can ...

More recent studies have indicated that the notion of FasL as a mediator of immune privilege needed to be reconsidered, and taught a valuable lesson about making broad conclusions based on small ...

The brain constantly engages in dialogue with the body’s immune system. Such communication appears aimed at ensuring a delicate balance between defending against injury and infection and ...

Almost 3 million people worldwide have multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disease caused by the immune ... infection, some EBV T cells could also target nerve cells in the brain.

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare but serious brain infection. It gradually ... has been offering a treatment with new immune cells that can suppress the virus in the ...

Beneath the envelope lies the tegument layer, which contains proteins and enzymes important in early virus infection ... in sensory neuronal ganglia. Immune-mediated scarring of the corneal ...

Herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) is a potentially blinding disease caused by herpes simplex virus corneal infection ... and CD4 T cells of the adaptive immune system appear requisite for stromal ...