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Gender differences in circulating levels of neutrophil extracellular traps in serum of multiple sclerosis patients

Kati Tillack, Matthias Naegele, Cathleen Haueis, Sven Schippling, Klaus Peter Wandinger, Roland Martin, Mireia Sospedra*

*Korrespondierende/r Autor/-in für diese Arbeit

Abstract

Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) trap and kill pathogens very efficiently but also activate dendritic cells and prime T cells. Previously, we demonstrated that neutrophils are primed and circulating NETs are elevated in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease. Here, we demonstrate gender specific differences in circulating NETs but not in neutrophil priming in RRMS patients. Although the results from our systematic and in depth characterization of these patients argue against a major role of circulating NETs in this disease, they suggest that NETs may underlie gender-specific differences in MS pathogenesis.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftJournal of Neuroimmunology
Jahrgang261
Ausgabenummer1-2
Seiten (von - bis)108-119
Seitenumfang12
ISSN0165-5728
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 15.08.2013

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We thank all the patients and healthy donors for their blood donations and the staff of the INiMS outpatient clinic and the staff of the Department for Transfusion Medicine, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf for providing the samples. The INiMS was supported by the Gemeinnützige Hertie Stiftung, and this project was supported by the DFG grant SO 1029/1-1 . Appendix A

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