Expansion and functional relevance of high-avidity myelin-specific CD4+ T cells in multiple sclerosis.

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which myelin-specific T cells are believed to play a crucial pathogenic role. Nevertheless, so far it has been extremely difficult to demonstrate differences in T cell reactivity to myelin Ag between MS patients and controls. We believe that by using unphysiologically high Ag concentrations previous studies have missed a highly relevant aspect of autoimmune...

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