The effects of pregnancy on myelin basic protein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in Lewis rats: Suppression of clinical disease, modulation of cytokine expression in the spinal cord inflammatory infiltrate and suppression of lymphocyte proliferation by pregnancy sera

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 405-412

  Harness, J ^a   McCombe, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cytokines; EAE; Encephalomyelitis; Immunosuppression; Multiple sclerosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INOCULATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MATERNAL SERUM; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REMISSION; SPINAL CORD; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0035211158     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0897.2001.d01-32.x     Document Type: Article

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