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Evidence of a Thymic Abnormality in Relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Julia Leigh Williams

出版	McGill University Libraries, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Q_vrSAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"The peripheral naive CD4 T cell pool is homeostatically regulated through a balance of thymic production, delivery of survival signals and homeostatic proliferation. CD4 recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) have a high T cell receptor excision circle (TREC) content and express high levels of CD31. We report premature thymic involution in RRMS, initiated by reduced numbers of naive CD4 T cells and various naive CD4 T cell subsets in peripheral blood. Further, CXCR4, a receptor involved in emigration from the thymus, and CD127 and Bcl-2 (survival signals) are upregulated in various naive CD4 T cell subsets in RRMS. As a compensatory process, naive CD4 T cells undergo homeostatic proliferation. This proliferation is a form of peripheral positive selection through self-MHC/self-antigen interaction and thus can contribute to the expansion of autoreactive T cells and predispose to development of RRMS."--