Rasmussenʼs encephalitis: a role for autoimmune cytotoxic T lymphocytes
- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Neurology
- Vol. 15 (2) , 197-200
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00019052-200204000-00012
Abstract
The present review describes advances in Rasmussen's encephalitis (also known as Rasmussen's syndrome), an unihemispheric intractable epileptic disease with persistent inflammation. Specific attention is given to the recent recognition of cytotoxicity by CD8+/granzyme-B-positive T lymphocytes as a new pathogenic mechanism of neuronal damage.Keywords
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