Sodium fusidate (fusidin) ameliorates the course of monophasic experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in the Lewis rat

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 101-104

  Marco, Roberto Di ^a   Puglisi, Gaetano ^a   Papaccio, Gianpaolo ^b   Nicoletti, Alessandra ^a   Patti, Francesco ^a   Reggio, Arturo ^a   Bendtzen, Klaus ^c   Nicoletti, Ferdinando ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis; Immunotherapy; Multiple sclerosis; Sodium fusidate

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; FUSIDATE SODIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE COURSE; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PROPHYLAXIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FUSIDIC ACID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; RATS;

EID: 0034980523     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135245850100700205     Document Type: Article

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