Field E J, Caspary E A
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1973 Aug;36(4):604-6. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.36.4.604.
Circulating lymphocytes from patients with multiple sclerosis are sensitized to saline homogenate of human thymus. They also show a minor degree of sensitization to lymph node extract. The sensitization to thymus is greater in multiple sclerosis than it is in other neurological disease (except dementia paralytica) and this may be related to the degree of parenchymatous destruction which provides the antigen stimulus or to astroglial overgrowth in these diseases. The observations support the view that human brain and thymus may share antigen(s) of the type known as ø-antigen in mice.
多发性硬化症患者的循环淋巴细胞对人胸腺盐水匀浆敏感。它们对淋巴结提取物也有轻微程度的敏感。多发性硬化症患者对胸腺的敏感性高于其他神经系统疾病（除麻痹性痴呆外），这可能与提供抗原刺激的实质破坏程度有关，或者与这些疾病中星形胶质细胞过度生长有关。这些观察结果支持这样一种观点，即人类大脑和胸腺可能共享在小鼠中被称为ø抗原的抗原类型。
