The peroxynitrite scavenger uric acid prevents inflammatory cell invasion into the central nervous system in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis through maintenance of blood-central nervous system barrier integrity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 165, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 6511-6518

  Kean, R B ^a   Spitsin, S V ^a   Mikheeva, T ^a   Scott, G S ^a   Hooper, D C ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEROXYNITRITE; SCAVENGER; TYROSINE; URIC ACID;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NITRATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0034548047     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.11.6511     Document Type: Article

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