title: Comment on "Antibodies to influenza nucleoprotein cross-react with human hypocretin receptor 2".
abstract: Did hypocretin receptor 2 autoantibodies cause narcolepsy with hypocretin deficiency in Pandemrix-vaccinated children, as suggested by Ahmed et al.? Using newly developed mouse models to report and inactivate hypocretin receptor expression, Vassalli et al. now show that hypocretin neurons (whose loss causes narcolepsy) do not express hypocretin autoreceptors, raising questions to the interpretation of Ahmed et al.'s findings.
authors.affiliation: Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. mehdi.tafti@unil.ch anne.vassalli@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vassalli
authors.affiliation: Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Sha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. mehdi.tafti@unil.ch anne.vassalli@unil.ch.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tafti
mesh_terms: D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology*; D003429:Cross Reactions / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D064446:Orexin Receptors / Q000276:immunology*; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D014758:Viral Core Proteins / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D064446:Orexin Receptors; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D014758:Viral Core Proteins