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Meningeal B Cell Clusters Correlate with Submeningeal Pathology in a Natural Model of Multiple Sclerosis

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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 207, 期 1, 页码 44-54

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AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000514

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  1. National Institute of Health through National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant [5K01NS097519-03]
  2. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Grant [5UL1TR001878-04]
  3. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Grant via Program in Comparative Animal Biology of the University of Pennsylvania [5UL1TR001878-04]
  4. Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an idiopathic demyelinating disease characterized by meningeal inflammation and accelerated disease progression. Granulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis (GME) in young dogs is proposed as a natural model for studying neuropathological aspects of MS. The meningeal B cell accumulation in GME correlates significantly with cortical demyelination similar to MS, making it a novel model for studying compartmentalized neuroinflammation and associated pathology in progressive MS.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an idiopathic demyelinating disease in which meningeal inflammation correlates with accelerated disease progression. The study of meningeal inflammation in MS has been limited because of constrained access to MS brain/spinal cord specimens and the lack of experimental models recapitulating progressive MS. Unlike induced models, a spontaneously occurring model would offer a unique opportunity to understand MS immunopathogenesis and provide a compelling framework for translational research. We propose granulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis (GME) as a natural model to study neuropathological aspects of MS. GME is an idiopathic, progressive neuroinflammatory disease of young dogs with a female bias. In the GME cases examined in this study, the meninges displayed focal and disseminated leptomeningeal enhancement on magnetic resonance imaging, which correlated with heavy leptomeningeal lymphocytic infiltration. These leptomeningeal infiltrates resembled tertiary lymphoid organs containing large B cell clusters that included few proliferating Ki67(+) cells, plasma cells, follicular dendritic/reticular cells, and germinal center B cell-like cells. These B cell collections were confined in a specialized network of collagen fibers associated with the expression of the lympho-organogenic chemokines CXCL13 and CCL21. Although neuroparenchymal perivascular infiltrates contained B cells, they lacked the immune signature of aggregates in the meningeal compartment. Finally, meningeal B cell accumulation correlated significantly with cortical demyelination reflecting neuropathological similarities to MS. Hence, during chronic neuroinflammation, the meningeal microenvironment sustains B cell accumulation that is accompanied by underlying neuroparenchymal injury, indicating GME as a novel, naturally occurring model to study compartmentalized neuroinflammation and the associated pathology thought to contribute to progressive MS.

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