A tale of race and B cells in multiple sclerosis

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. lamezcua@usc.edu.

Comment

Christopher M Orlando et al. Nat Rev Neurol. 2024 Jan.

. 2024 Jan;20(1):5-6.

doi: 10.1038/s41582-023-00907-x.

¹ Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. lamezcua@usc.edu.

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African American patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) have higher proportions of CD19+ and CD20+ B-cell lineage cells in their cerebrospinal fluid than White MS patients.
Xue H, Arbini AA, Melton HJ, Kister I. Xue H, et al. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2023 Nov;79:105047. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2023.105047. Epub 2023 Oct 2. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2023. PMID: 37832255

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