Cover Picture: Clonally expanded plasma cells in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients produce myelin‐specific antibodies – Eur. J. Immunol. 7/2008

Abstract

The cover shows a confocal micrograph of myelinated nervous tissue at the rim of a demyelinating lesion in the brain white matter of a patient with multiple sclerosis (MS). Myelin surrounding the axon is stained by a monoclonal antibody obtained by recombinant expression of immunoglobulin genes from clonally expanded plasma cells as present in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients. The image was taken from the article by von Büdingen et al. (pp. in which the authors demonstrate that myelin specific antibodies result from antigen driven immune responses found in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients.