Volume 24, No 9, Sep 2014

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 24 Issue 9, September 2014: 1021-1022

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Pain-induced skin autoimmunity

Francesca Odoardi^1,2, Winfried Neuhuber³ and Alexander Flügel^1,2

¹Institute for Multiple Sclerosis Research, Department of Neuroimmunology,Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung and University Medical Centre Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
²Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine Göttingen, Germany
³Institute for Anatomy I, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen, Germany Correspondence: Alexander Flügel,(fluegel@med.uni-goettingen.de)

A recent paper published in Nature reports sensory nerve fibers in the skin that give local immune cells important instructions for the organization of an immune response; in this particular case the cooperation between the nervous and immune systems had disastrous consequences, namely an auto-destruction of the skin.

10.1038/cr.2014.80

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