Author: ["Rainer Kramer","Yiping Zhang","Jochen Gehrmann","Ralf Gold","Hans Thoenen","Hartmut Wekerle"]
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Abstract
Nerve-specific autoimmune T lymphocytes were used as vehicles to deliver therapeutically useful neurotrophic factors across the endothelial blood–nerve barrier. P2 protein-reactive T-lymphocyte lines from Lewis rats were transduced with a recombinant retrovirus containing the mouse nerve growth factor (NGF) gene. The engineered T cells released high amounts of NGF dependent on antigenic stimulation in vitro. After intravenous injection, the T cells infiltrated the rat peripheral nervous system and persisted there for at least two weeks. Local release of NGF from engineered T cells was demonstrable by immunocytochemistry and by an anti-inflammatory effect on infiltrating macrophages.Cite this article
Kramer, R., Zhang, Y., Gehrmann, J. et al. Gene transfer through the blood–nerve barrier: NGF-engineered neuritogenic T lymphocytes attenuate experimental autoimmune neuritis. Nat Med 1, 1162–1166 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1195-1162 