Neuroimmunology: Waking the immune system

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 17, 671 (2016). doi:10.1038/nrn.2016.147 Author: Sian Lewis Recent evidence suggests that narcolepsy, a disorder that results from the loss of orexinergic neurons of the lateral hypothalamus, has an autoimmune aetiology, but the underlying mechanisms have not been elucidated. Here, haemagglutinin (which acted as an artificial 'self-antigen') was selectively expressed in mouse hypothalamic

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Source: Nature Reviews Neuroscience - October 17, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Sian Lewis Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research

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