Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis relapses are reduced in heterozygous golli MBP knockout mice

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 44-50

  Voskuhl, Rhonda R ^a   Pribyl, Thomas M ^b   Kampf, Kathy ^b   Handley, Vance ^b   Liu, Hong biao ^a   Feng, JiMing ^b   Campagnoni, Celia W ^b   Soldan, Samantha S ^a   Messing, Albee ^c   Campagnoni, Anthony T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigens peptides epitopes; EAE MS; Myelin basic protein; Spleen and lymph nodes; Transgenic knockout

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INCIDENCE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SPECIES COMPARISON; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0038546734     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(03)00161-9     Document Type: Article

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