“This beautiful study shows, for the first time, a close association between T cells, cognition, and neurodegenerative disease in humans,” wrote Jonathan Kipnis of University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “These elegant findings on expansion of Epstein-Barr virus-reactive CD8 T cells in the CSF of AD patients are extremely interesting and intriguing,” he added.
More at: https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/attack-clones-memory-cd8-t-cells-stalk-ad-pd-brainAttack of the Clones? Memory CD8+ T Cells Stalk the AD, PD Brain