Restoring immune tolerance in neuromyelitis optica: Part I

Larry Steinman¹, Amit Bar-Or¹, Jacinta M Behne¹+15

• ¹Department of Neurology (L.S.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA; Neuroimmunology Unit and Experimental Therapeutics Program (A.B.-O.), Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation (J.M.B.), San Diego, CA; Department of Gastroenterology (D.B.-R., P.V.), Hospital Clínic, CIBERehd and Center of Neuroimmunology & Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Genentech, Inc. (P.S.C.), South San Francisco, CA; Department of Pathology (M.C.-S.), University of Florida School of Medicine, Gainesville; Opexa Therapeutics (D.H.), The Woodlands, TX; Department of Surgery (J.I.K.), Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Biochemistry (D.M.K.), University of Illinois, Urbana; Neuroimmunology and MS Research (A.L., R.M., S.S.), Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, University Zurich, Switzerland; Forest Landing Court (H.L.W.), Rockville, MD; Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases (S.S.Z.), Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology and Program in Immunology (H.L.W.), University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; Department of Medicine (S.S.Z.), Divisions of Molecular Medicine & Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles; Harbor-UCLA Medical Center & LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (M.R.Y.), Torrance, CA; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kellogg Eye Center, and Division of Metabolism and Endocrine Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor (T.J.S.).