Amelioration of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in Lewis rats by lovastatin

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 71-74

  Stanislaus, Romesh ^a   Pahan, Kalipada ^a   Singh, Avtar K ^b   Singh, Inderjit ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Interferon ; Lewis rats; Lovastatin; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MEVINOLIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INTERFERON TYPE II; LOVASTATIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0033538533     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00414-0     Document Type: Article

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