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SUBMITTER: Agasing AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6911824 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Agasing Agnieshka M AM Gawde Saurabh S Kumar Gaurav G Turner Emma E Axtell Robert C RC
Journal of neuroimmunology 20191106
Recent studies identified that interferon beta (IFN-β) treatment skews B-cells towards a regulatory phenotype in multiple sclerosis. To assess B cell involvement during IFN-β therapy, we compared IFN-β treatment in a B cell-independent model and a B cell-dependent model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). We show that in B cell-independent EAE, IFN-β ameliorates neuroinflammation. Conversely, in B cell-dependent EAE, IFN-β has no effect on disease. Effective IFN-β therapy in B ce ...[more]