Multimodal analysis in acute and chronic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 238-250

  Giatti, Silvia ^a   Boraso, Mariaserena ^a   Abbiati, Federico ^a   Ballarini, Elisa ^b   Calabrese, Donato ^a   Santos Galindo, Maria ^c   Rigolio, Roberta ^b   Pesaresi, Marzia ^a   Caruso, Donatella ^a   Viviani, Barbara ^a   Cavaletti, Guido ^b   Garcia Segura, Luis Miguel ^c   Melcangi, Roberto Cosimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Microglia; Myelin proteins; Neuroactive steroids

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ESTRADIOL; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; MYELIN PROTEIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; TETRAHYDROPROGESTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MICROGLIA; MONOCYTE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FLUOROMETRY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYELIN PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAYS; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; STEROIDS;

EID: 84874667682     PISSN: 15571890     EISSN: 15571904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11481-012-9385-9     Document Type: Article

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