Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Integrated single cell analysis of blood and cerebrospinal fluid leukocytes in multiple sclerosis

  • David Schafflick,
  • Chenling A. Xu,
  • Maike Hartlehnert,
  • Michael Cole,
  • Andreas Schulte-Mecklenbeck,
  • Tobias Lautwein,
  • Jolien Wolbert,
  • Michael Heming,
  • Sven G. Meuth,
  • Tanja Kuhlmann,
  • Catharina C. Gross,
  • Heinz Wiendl,
  • Nir Yosef,
  • Gerd Meyer zu Horste

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14118-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Here the authors provide a single-cell characterization of cerebrospinal fluid and blood of newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, revealing altered composition of lymphocyte and monocyte subsets, validated by other methods including the interrogation of the TFH subset in mouse models of MS.