Pathological CNS Autoimmune Disease Triggered by Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Implications for Autoimmune Vaccine Therapy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2690-2700

  Jones, T Bucky ^a   Basso, D Michele ^a   Sodhi, Ajeet ^b   Pan, Jonathan Z ^b   Hart, Ronald P ^b,c   MacCallum, Robert C ^a   Lee, Sunhee ^a   Whitacre, Caroline C ^a   Popovich, Phillip G ^a,d  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; CNS injury; Myelin basic protein; Neuroprotection; Protective autoimmunity; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; NEUROTROPHIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AXONAL INJURY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONTUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WHITE MATTER; ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONVALESCENCE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; GENETICS; HINDLIMB; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOLOGY; INNERVATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; DEMYELINATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, CNS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HINDLIMB; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ACTIVE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REFLEX; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0036548768     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-07-02690.2002     Document Type: Article

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