Article
Interleukin 22 is a candidate gene for Tmevp3, a locus controlling Theiler's virus-induced neurological diseases.
Genetics - 1 Jul 2007
Levillayer F, Mas M, Levi-Acobas F, Brahic M, Bureau J F
Abstract excerpt
After intracerebral inoculation, Theiler's virus induces in its natural host, the mouse, an acute encephalomyelitis followed, in susceptible animals, by chronic inflammation and primary demyelination. Susceptibility to demyelination among strains of laboratory mice is explained by the capacity of the immune system to control viral load during persistence. Also, differences of susceptibility to viral load between...
Topics
- Animals
- Demyelinating Diseases
- Encephalomyelitis
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Interleukins
- Mice
- Nervous System Diseases
- Survival Rate
- Theilovirus
- Interleukin-22
