Evidence for Resident Memory T Cells in Rasmussen Encephalitis.

ABSTRACT: Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) is a rare pediatric neuroinflammatory disease of unknown etiology characterized by intractable seizures, and progressive atrophy usually confined to one cerebral hemisphere. Surgical removal or disconnection of the affected cerebral hemisphere is currently the only intervention that effectively stops the seizures. Histopathological evaluation of resected brain tissue has shown that activated brain resident macrophages (microglia) and infiltrating T cells are involved in the inflammatory reaction. Here, we report that T cells isolated from seven RE brain surgery specimens express the resident memory T cell (TRM) marker CD103. CD103 was expressed by >50% of CD8(+) αβ T cells and γδ T cells irrespective of the length of time from seizure onset to surgery, which ran

SUBMITTER: Owens GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4763066 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature