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Nature Medicine 14, 1150 - 1151 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm1108-1150

HLA class I: friend and foe of multiple sclerosis

Roland Martin1

  1. Roland Martin is at the Institute for Neuroimmunology and Clinical Multiple Sclerosis Research, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Falkenried 94, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
    e-mail: roland.martin@zmnh.uni-hamburg.de


Findings in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis highlight the contribution of CD8+ T cells, previously largely ignored in this disease. The work also helps answer why certain variants of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) complex are protective, while others increase risk for disease (pages 1227–1235).

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