TY - JOUR
T1 - Passive transfer of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in Wistar rats
T2 - Dissociation of clinical symptoms and biochemical alterations
AU - Degano, Alicia L.
AU - Roth, German A.
PY - 2000/1/15
Y1 - 2000/1/15
N2 - We have used passive transfer of myelin-reactive lymphocytes in the Wistar rat model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) to investigate the nature of the central nervous system immunopathological alterations induced by these cells. Mononuclear cells from lymph nodes or spleen from sick myelin/complete Freund's adjuvant-immunized donors did not transfer clinical disease. However, depending on the previous treatment of the transferred cells, recipients develop central nervous system biochemical and histological alterations. Fresh cells from lymph nodes immediately transferred after procurement from the sick EAE donor rat were capable of inducing the most significant diminution in the content of myelin basic protein, sulfatides, and 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide-3'-phosphohydrolase activity, with concomitant inflammatory infiltrations of white matter, principally in spinal cord and cerebellar lobules. Similar alterations were observed when animals were injected with spleen mononuclear cells activated in the presence of a nonspecific mitogen as concanavalin A. However, antigen- specific activated spleen cells generated by culturing in the presence of bovine myelin induced alterations to a lesser degree. Results point to a dissociation of the clinical disease from the central nervous system biochemical and histopathological lesions occurring in the EAE-transferred Wistar rats and indicate that these alterations in EAE are induced principally by T cells activated in vivo rather than by cells activated in vitro by myelin antigens. Therefore, these findings suggest a possible participation of lymphocytes unlike the encephalitogenic T cells in the induction of the described alterations and provide a useful model to explore further the subclinical responses to this experimental disease.
AB - We have used passive transfer of myelin-reactive lymphocytes in the Wistar rat model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) to investigate the nature of the central nervous system immunopathological alterations induced by these cells. Mononuclear cells from lymph nodes or spleen from sick myelin/complete Freund's adjuvant-immunized donors did not transfer clinical disease. However, depending on the previous treatment of the transferred cells, recipients develop central nervous system biochemical and histological alterations. Fresh cells from lymph nodes immediately transferred after procurement from the sick EAE donor rat were capable of inducing the most significant diminution in the content of myelin basic protein, sulfatides, and 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide-3'-phosphohydrolase activity, with concomitant inflammatory infiltrations of white matter, principally in spinal cord and cerebellar lobules. Similar alterations were observed when animals were injected with spleen mononuclear cells activated in the presence of a nonspecific mitogen as concanavalin A. However, antigen- specific activated spleen cells generated by culturing in the presence of bovine myelin induced alterations to a lesser degree. Results point to a dissociation of the clinical disease from the central nervous system biochemical and histopathological lesions occurring in the EAE-transferred Wistar rats and indicate that these alterations in EAE are induced principally by T cells activated in vivo rather than by cells activated in vitro by myelin antigens. Therefore, these findings suggest a possible participation of lymphocytes unlike the encephalitogenic T cells in the induction of the described alterations and provide a useful model to explore further the subclinical responses to this experimental disease.
KW - Autoimmunity
KW - Myelin
KW - Myelin basic protein
KW - T lymphocytes
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U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(20000115)59:2<283::AID-JNR15>3.0.CO;2-S
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(20000115)59:2<283::AID-JNR15>3.0.CO;2-S
M3 - Article
C2 - 10650887
AN - SCOPUS:0034650992
SN - 0360-4012
VL - 59
SP - 283
EP - 290
JO - Journal of Neuroscience Research
JF - Journal of Neuroscience Research
IS - 2
ER -