Successful generation of fully human, second generation, anti-CD19 CAR T cells for clinical use in patients with diverse autoimmune disorders. 

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Background: B-cell targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies, which lead to profound B-cell depletion, have been well-established in hematology-oncology. This deep B-cell depletion mechanism has prompted the exploration of their use in B-cell driven autoimmune diseases. We herein report on the manufacturing of KYV-101, a fully human anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy, derived from patients… Read more »

Treatment effect modifiers of immunotherapies for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis-A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Background: This meta-analysis aimed to assess the treatment effects of immunotherapies in subgroups of adults with clinically isolated syndrome or relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the effect of potential treatment effect modifiers (TEMs). Methods: Phase 2 and 3 RCTs with a placebo comparator were analyzed. Risk of bias was assessed. Random-effects meta-analyses were… Read more »

Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease using plasma biomarkers adjusted to clinical probability.

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Recently approved anti-amyloid immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) require evidence of amyloid-β pathology from positron emission tomography (PET) or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) before initiating treatment. Blood-based biomarkers promise to reduce the need for PET or CSF testing; however, their interpretation at the individual level and the circumstances requiring confirmatory testing are poorly understood. Individual-level interpretation… Read more »

Current state and perspectives of CAR T cell therapy in central nervous system diseases. 

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B cell-directed CAR T cell therapy has fundamentally changed the treatment of hematological malignancies and its scope of application is rapidly expanding to include other diseases such as solid tumors or autoimmune disorders. Therapy-refractoriness remains an important challenge in various inflammatory and non-inflammatory disorders of the CNS. The reasons for therapy failure are diverse and… Read more »

Identification of late-stage tau accumulation using plasma phospho-tau217.

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„Background: Blood-based disease staging across the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) continuum holds the promise to identify individuals that profit from disease-modifying therapies. We set out to identify Braak V+ (Braak V and/or VI) tau PET-positive individuals within amyloid-β (Aβ)-positive individuals using plasma biomarkers.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we assessed 289 individuals from the TRIAD cohort and… Read more »

Protective effect of TCR-mediated MAIT cell activation during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

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Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells express semi-invariant T cell receptors (TCR) for recognizing bacterial and yeast antigens derived from riboflavin metabolites presented on the non-polymorphic MHC class I-related protein 1 (MR1). Neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS) is likely initiated by autoreactive T cells and perpetuated by infiltration of additional immune cells, but the precise role… Read more »