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Spinal cord injury induces an immune deficiency in patients, study finds

by The Ohio State University B Cells Extravasate, Convert Into Plasma Cells, and Synthesize Antibodies in Subacute Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Lesions After Human SCI. B cells leave the vessel lumen (extravasate) and populate the perivascular space (2 weeks after SCI). These findings are corroborated by the detection of 2 different B cell antigens, CD20...

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Waning treatment for immune deficiency is a warning for all ‘one-and-done’ therapies

By ERIC BOODMAN As a new mother, she didn’t know to look for blue-tinged lips. She could just tell her baby’s color was off. On a chest X-ray, the clean, white-against-dark curves of his ribs were obscured, clouded by fluid. Pneumonia. That tipped Ray Ballard’s physicians off: He had a form of severe combined immunodeficiency...