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Peripheral injections of Freund's adjuvant in mice provoke leakage of serum proteins through the blood-brain barrier without inducing reactive gliosis.
Brain research - 19 Jun 1999
Rabchevsky A G, Degos J D, Dreyfus P A
Abstract excerpt
Breakdown of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and ensuing gliosis are common events following physical trauma to the central nervous system (CNS) or during autoimmune diseases such as experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). Some studies of EAE in rodents report that peripheral injections of complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA), which contains heat-inactivated Mycobacterium to provoke peripheral inflammation...
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