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Contrasting roles for axonal degeneration in an autoimmune versus viral model of multiple sclerosis: When can axonal injury be beneficial?
The American journal of pathology - 1 Jan 2007
Tsunoda Ikuo, Tanaka Tomoko, Terry Emily Jane, Fujinami Robert S
Abstract excerpt
Although demyelination is a cardinal feature in multiple sclerosis, axonal injury also occurs. We tested whether a delay in axonal degeneration could affect the disease severity in two models for multiple sclerosis: experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) infection. We compared wild-type C57BL/6 (B6) mice with C57BL/Wld(s) (Wld) mice, which carry a...
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