Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Jul 2016)

Evidence for Resident Memory T cells in Rasmussen Encephalitis

  • Amer Khojah,
  • Marisa Klein-Gitelman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-30-3-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 3

Abstract

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Investigators from University of California Los Angeles studied the presence of different T cell subset population in the brain tissue of 7 patients with Rasmussen encephalitis, a rare neuroinflammatory disorder characterized by intractable seizures and usually associated with progressive hemi cerebral atrophy, who underwent brain surgery and compared them to patients with focal cortical dysplasia.

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