Münster (mfm/sk-sm) – The scenario resembles a serious motor accident: a car has spun out of control, breaches the central crash barrier and collides with the oncoming traffic. In the case of multiple sclerosis, harmful T-cells break through the protective blood-brain barrier and thus penetrate into the central nervous system (CNS), where they trigger a destructive inflammation. What’s special about this is that evidently the CNS also has “accident black spots” – in other words, places where an especially high number of centres of inflammation are be found. Neuro-immunologists at Münster University have now found out why this is so. More . . .

PD Dr. Luisa Klotz and Ivan Kuzmanov at work in the laboratory (Photo: FZ/UKM)

PD Dr. Luisa Klotz and Ivan Kuzmanov at work in the laboratory (Photo: FZ/UKM)

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Wed, 22/11/2023
Hybrid seminar on ‘The origins and consequences of multiple slerosis’
Munich. Prof. Lars Fugger from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford will give a hybrid seminar on ‘The origins and consequences of multiple slerosis’ in the large auditorium at the TranslaTUM in MUNICH. The talk is organized by the TRR 355 and will be streamed via the TRR 355 seminar […]...more
Wed, 23/08/2023
Neurology Webinar on human brain T cells in health and multiple sclerosis
Muenster. The SFB 128 is happy welcome Joost J.F.M. Smolders, MD, PhD , head of MS Center ErasMS and Neuroimmunology Brain (NIB) Research Group at the Department of Immunology of the Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), as lecturer at the Muenster Neurology Webinar. His talk is entitled “Unique features of human brain T cells […]...more
Thu, 03/08/2023
New Date: Neurology Webinar – How much gut needs the brain
Muenster. In January 2024, Prof. Anne-Katrin Pröbstel, Head of the Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Clinic at the University Hospital of Basel, will visit Muenster to give insights into the microbiota-immune crosstalk in neuroonflammation. Her presentation – which ois part of the Muenster Neurology Webinar – will be live-streamed. Time: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Place: Online at zoom. […]...more