What's in a name? Experimental encephalomyelitis: 'Allergic' or 'autoimmune'

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 223, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Mackay, Ian R ^a   Anderson, Warwick H ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; EAE; Experimental autoimmune autoallergic encephalomyelitis; History of immunology; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; LINGUISTICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77953509439     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.03.017     Document Type: Editorial

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