A team of physicians from Bochum are the first to successfully use CAR T-cell therapy to treat two patients with a rare autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system. This treatment modifies ...

Neurological autoimmune diseases cause your immune system to attack your central or peripheral nervous systems. Multiple sclerosis is the most common and well-known, but several of these ...

CIDP is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system's B-cells attack the peripheral nervous system. In the current study, the CAR CD19 T-cell therapy was used to combat these rogue B-cells.

Autoimmune neurological diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks nerve cells. Damage to neuronal cells can lead to a variety of neurologic and psychiatric symptoms. Autoimmune ...

For the millions of Americans battling autoimmune disorders, new hope may be on the horizon in the form of reverse or inverse ...

A team of physicians from Bochum are the first to successfully use CAR T-cell therapy to treat two patients with a rare ...

A revolutionary treatment for autoimmune diseases could be on the horizon. Twenty-four million to 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease, in which the body’s immune system mistakenly ...

Currently, autoimmune diseases are usually treated with drugs that suppress the immune system. Some of these drugs are given by infusion, and can cost tens of thousands of dollars a year. They ...

As a stand-alone condition, "ataxia is a degenerative disease of the nervous system," explains Andrew Rosen, chief executive officer of the National Ataxia Foundation.

Building on years of research in molecular disease mechanisms and the link between the nervous and immune systems, Feinstein Institutes’ researchers discovered neural targets that can be ...