Open AccessEvidence for Resident Memory T cells in Rasmussen Encephalitis
Author(s) -
Amer Khojah,
Marisa Klein-Gitelman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pediatric neurology briefs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2166-6482
pISSN - 1043-3155
DOI - 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-30-3-5
Subject(s) - cortical dysplasia , encephalitis , atrophy , population , medicine , neuroscience , psychology , pathology , pediatrics , epilepsy , virology , virus , environmental health
Investigators from University of California Los Angeles studied the presence of different T cell subset population in the brain tissue of 7 patients with Rasmussen encephalitis, a rare neuroinflammatory disorder characterized by intractable seizures and usually associated with progressive hemi cerebral atrophy, who underwent brain surgery and compared them to patients with focal cortical dysplasia.