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Induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in Dark Agouti rats without adjuvant

SUMMARY Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is a well‐recognized model for multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans. However, adjuvants used with encephalitogens to induce EAE produce non‐specific effects interfering with the mechanisms involved in the autoimmune response to the central nervous...

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Published in:Clinical and experimental immunology 2004-04, Vol.136 (1), p.49-55
Main Authors: STOSIC‐GRUJICIC, S., RAMIC, Z., BUMBASIREVIC, V., HARHAJI, L., MOSTARICA‐STOJKOVIC, M.
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Summary:SUMMARY Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is a well‐recognized model for multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans. However, adjuvants used with encephalitogens to induce EAE produce non‐specific effects interfering with the mechanisms involved in the autoimmune response to the central nervous system (CNS) tissue. It is therefore important to establish a more suitable model of EAE for analysis of autoimmune phenomena resembling those operative in MS. Here we report that EAE can be induced regularly in Dark Agouti (DA) strain of rats with spinal cord tissue without any adjuvant, as judged by both clinical and histological parameters. The incidence and severity of EAE depended on the origin of the encephalitogen, the rat versus guinea pig spinal cord homogenate being more efficient. Furthermore, EAE could be reinduced in animals which had recovered from disease that had been induced actively with encephalitogen alone, suggesting the role of adjuvant‐generated non‐specific mechanisms in resistance to reinduction of EAE. Thus, EAE induced in DA rats with encephalitogen alone provides a reproducible model for defining pathogenically relevant events in CNS autoimmunity devoid of the potentially misleading effects of adjuvants.
ISSN:0009-9104
1365-2249
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2249.2004.02418.x