Central nervous system and non-central nervous system antigen vaccines exacerbate neuropathology caused by nerve injury

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2053-2064

  Ankeny, Daniel P ^a   Popovich, Phillip G ^a,b  

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

^b 2078 Graves Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Mouse; Neuroinflammation; Neurotrauma; Peripheral nerve injury; T cells

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN; OVALBUMIN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; AXOTOMY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROGLIA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; MYELIN-ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; VACCINES;

EID: 34147211011     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05458.x     Document Type: Article

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