CD24 is a cell surface glycoprotein that is expressed on both immune cells and cells of the CNS. We have previously shown that CD24 is required for the induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an experimental model for the human disease multiple sclerosis (MS). The development of EAE requires CD24 expression on both T cells and non-T host cells in the CNS. To understand the...

Lewis rats with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), induced either by the subcutaneous injection of guinea pig myelin basic protein (MBP) or by the adoptive transfer of MBP-primed spleen cells, suffer from a single episode of paralysis from which they recover spontaneously. Animals developing EAE were found to have greatly elevated levels of corticosterone in the blood. This endogeno...

The primary aims of this study were to investigate mitochondrial metabolism during experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) animal model axonal injury and to determine the correlation among neurological function scores, pathological changes, and the activities of the BB isoenzyme of creatine kinase (CK-BB), catalase (CAT), and calpain in the brain tissues of EAE rats. Another goal was to p...

Presently, the understanding of bacterial enteric diseases in the community and their virulence factors relies almost exclusively on clinical disease reporting and examination of clinical pathogen isolates. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of an alternative approach that monitors potential enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) prevalence an...

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) serves as the prototypic model for T cell–mediated autoim-munity. EAE has striking similarities with the human disease acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a complication seen with vaccination and after certain viral infections. EAE has been used as a model to help understand the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and to help identify potent...

Both T cells and B cells are implicated in the pathology of multiple sclerosis (MS), but how these cells cooperate to drive disease remains unclear. Recent studies using experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) demonstrated that the TH17 pathway is correlated with increased numbers of ectopic B-cell follicles in the central nervous system (CNS). As follicular T helper (TFH) cells are reg...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and its animal model experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) are inflammatory demyelinating and neurodegenerative diseases in the central nervous system (CNS). It is believed that MS and EAE are initiated by autoreactive T lymphocytes that recognize myelin antigens; however, the mechanisms responsible for neurodegeneration in these diseases remain elusive. Data i...

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is the most widely accepted in vivo animal model of Multiple sclerosis (MS). EAE model are most suitable for analysis of immunogenetic elements (major histocompatibility complex) and for the study of histological features (inflammation, demyelination and degeneration) of the disease for screening of new treatments for MS. Some approved medications...

Several matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) members contribute to pathology in multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). As the role of MMP-12 in EAE has been understudied, we examined its expression in EAE and in vitro. MMP-12 transcripts increased with EAE, and protein was localized to a subset of macrophages/microglia. The temporal expression of MMP-12 largely corres...