Scientists are currently working to understand the influence EBV has on MS. Lanz and his team discovered that antibodies to the EBV protein known as EBNA1 can react with a brain protein, GlialCAM.

Without EBNA1, EBV cannot live in B cells, and MS patients have higher levels of antibodies towards EBNA1. But EBV makes over 80 different proteins during its life cycle. In our latest work ...

Patients with Crohn’s disease had high Epstein-Barr virus seropositivity in the preclinical period and at diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease, according to results of a cohort study of military ...

An estimated 90 to 95 percent of adults are carriers of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and have formed antibodies against it. Many become infected as children with few or no symptoms, but in young ...

Researchers identified EBV in the blood samples derived from children with MIS-C. They also found antibodies and large amounts of EBV-reactive memory T cells in affected children, indicating the ...

including those from Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), than did T cells treated with antibodies that blocked TGFβ (Fig. 1a), suggesting that T cells in individuals with MIS-C fail to control dormant ...