Papers by Lauren Gulbicki
Neuro-Oncology, Oct 31, 2023
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AIDS and Behavior, 2024
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The Journal of Immunology
The contribution of antiviral resident memory T cells (TRM) to blood-brain barrier disruption has... more The contribution of antiviral resident memory T cells (TRM) to blood-brain barrier disruption has not been defined despite the implication of this lymphocyte in clinical encephalitis. We therefore evaluated the capacity of TRM cells to induce CNS vascular permeability in mice which resolved Theiler’s murine encephalomyelitis (TMEV) infection. Following TMEV infection of the brain, persistent populations of virus antigen specific resident memory T cells are induced within the brain. This population of resident memory T cells can be further reactivated at 60 dpi through administration of the cognate immunodominant virus peptide antigen, VP2, inducing blood brain barrier disruption in the process. We determined that brain resident memory T cells expand following reactivation with administered VP2 peptide. This reactivation is associated with infiltration of T cells, and inflammatory myeloid cells into the brain. Importantly, using depletion and T cell sequestrating strategies with low ...
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Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
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Neuro-Oncology
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an incurable and aggressive form of brain cancer that is associated with se... more Glioblastoma (GBM) is an incurable and aggressive form of brain cancer that is associated with severe peripheral immunosuppression. This immunosuppression is a critical barrier to patient survival and the success of immune modulatory therapies. Using the murine GL261 model of GBM, we recapitulated major features of peripheral immunosuppression observed in patients including T cell lymphopenia. We determined that peripheral immunosuppression in GBM is multifaceted and involves release of novel non-steroidal soluble factors with large molecular weight that are found in sera of glioma-bearing mice. These high molecular weight species potently inhibits T cell proliferation in vitro despite the presence of strong T cell stimulation. Our goal was to determine the identity of the immunosuppressive species in serum of glioma-bearing mice. We performed state-of-the-art comparative high throughput mass spectrometry on fractionated and multiplexed sera isolated from control and glioma-bearing ...
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The contribution of circulating verses tissue resident memory T cells (TRM) to clinical neuropath... more The contribution of circulating verses tissue resident memory T cells (TRM) to clinical neuropathology is an enduring question due to a lack of mechanistic insights. The prevailing view is TRM cells are protective against pathogens in the brain. However, the extent antigen-specific TRM cells can induce neuropathology upon reactivation has not been determined. Using the described phenotype of TRMs, we found that brains of naïve mice harbor populations of CD69+ CD103− T cells. Notably, numbers of CD69+ CD103− TRM cells rapidly increase following neurological insults of physical, cancerous, or viral origins. This TRM expansion precedes infiltration of virus specific CD8 T cells and is due to proliferation of T cells within the brain. In contrast, the CD69+ CD103+ TRMs in the brain are generated after the initial expansion of CD69+ CD103− cells following injury and are antigen-specific. We next evaluated the capacity of antigen-specific TRMs in the brain to induce significant neuroinfla...
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