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Tumor necrosis factor receptor p55 and p75 deficiency protects mice from developing experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Jan 2002
Goluszko Elzbieta, Deng Caishu, Poussin Mathilde A, Christadoss Premkumar
Abstract excerpt
The precise pathogenic role of proinflammatory cytokines belonging to the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) family has not been investigated yet in antibody-mediated myasthenia gravis (MG) and experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG). In this study we report that TNF receptor p55(-/-) p75(-/-) mice were resistant to the development of clinical EAMG induced by acetylcholine receptor (AChR) immunizations. The...
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