Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "CNS"

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    • Deciphering Human Cell-Autonomous Anti-HSV-1 Immunity in the Central Nervous System 

      Lafaille, Fabien G.; Ciancanelli, Michael J.; Studer, Lorenz; Smith, Gregory; Notarangelo, Luigi; Casanova, Jean-Laurent; Zhang, Shen-Ying (Frontiers Media S.A., 2015)
      Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) is a common virus that can rarely invade the human central nervous system (CNS), causing devastating encephalitis. The permissiveness to HSV-1 of the various relevant cell types of the CNS, ...

    • Imaging Neuroinflammation – from Bench to Bedside 

      Pulli, Benjamin; Chen, John W (2014)
      Neuroinflammation plays a central role in a variety of neurological diseases, including stroke, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and malignant CNS neoplasms, among many other. Different cell types and molecular ...

    • Oculofacial Pain: Corneal Nerve Damage Leading to Pain Beyond the Eye 

      Rosenthal, Perry; Borsook, David; Moulton, Eric A. (The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2016)
      The cornea is supplied principally by the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve and is the most densely innervated organ in the human body. Under normal conditions, the corneal nerve terminals incorporate sensors that ...