Increased promoter methylation of the immune regulatory gene SHP-1 in leukocytes of multiple sclerosis subjects.

abstract：:We investigated potential therapeutic effects of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulators FTY720 (fingolimod) and selective S1P1 agonist SEW2871 on a spontaneous autoimmune polyneuropathy (SAP) when given orally at 7 mo (anticipated disease onset) for 4 weeks. Clinical severity, electrophysiologic and histolo...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Kim HJ,Jung CG,Dukala D,Bae H,Kakazu R,Wollmann R,Soliven B

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease with heterogeneous clinical presentations and course. MS is considered to be a T cell mediated disease but in recent years contribution of innate immune cells in mediating MS pathogenesis is being appreciated. In this review, we have discussed the ro...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Gandhi R,Laroni A,Weiner HL

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are key regulators of immune responses and have been associated with autoimmunity in animal models and human disease. The effects of interferon beta (IFN-beta), an immunomodulatory cytokine used in multiple sclerosis (MS) therapy, on DCs are not well understood. Monocyte-derived DCs at different ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Wiesemann E,Sönmez D,Heidenreich F,Windhagen A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo-A is a protein associated with central nervous system (CNS) myelin thought to impair regenerative responses and to suppress sprouting and plastic changes of synaptic terminals. In this study, we report that serum IgM autoantibodies to the recombinant large N-terminal inhibitory domain of Nogo-A are a frequent fin...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Reindl M,Khantane S,Ehling R,Schanda K,Lutterotti A,Brinkhoff C,Oertle T,Schwab ME,Deisenhammer F,Berger T,Bandtlow CE

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG) is a well established animal model, which can be induced in various animal species and strains with acetylcholine receptor (AChR) and represents an experimental counterpart of human myasthenia gravis (MG). Current immunotherapies of both EAMG and MG are non-specific and...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Ma CG,Zhang GX,Xiao BG,Link J,Olsson T,Link H

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:15% of myasthenia gravis (MG) patients do not have antibodies against the acetylcholine receptor (AChR). Some of these "seronegative" MG patients have antibodies against muscle specific kinase (MuSK), and many have a non-IgG factor that acutely inhibits AChR function in a muscle-like cell line, CN21. Here we show, usi...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Spreadbury I,Kishore U,Beeson D,Vincent A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression and chronic fatigue are frequently present in multiple sclerosis (MS); however, the prevalence rates have not been investigated in neuromyelitis optica (NMO). Thirty-nine consecutive NMO and 75 MS patients were compared using self-rating questionnaires for depressive states, daily activity, and fatigue, as ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Akaishi T,Nakashima I,Misu T,Fujihara K,Aoki M

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postpartum is a period of unique psychosocial stress characterized by sleep disturbance, risk for depressed mood, and heightened parenting stress. However, data on effects of these exposures on inflammatory immune function are limited. METHODS:This study examined associations among sleep, psychosocial stres...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Christian LM,Kowalsky JM,Mitchell AM,Porter K

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a number of new therapies that are effective in reducing the inflammatory component of multiple sclerosis, the underlying cause of the disease remains uncertain. One of the most powerful tools available to an investigator to help in unraveling the underlying disease mechanisms in MS is the incorporation of car...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： McFarland H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monoclonal IgM antibodies present in the blood of some patients with peripheral neuropathy and murine hybrid IgM antibodies C5 and C6, raised against myelin-associated glycoprotein, and HNK-1, raised against the human T cell line HSB-2, all bind to the carbohydrate moiety of myelin-associated glycoprotein. The r...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Miller SL,Kahn SN,Perussia B,Trinchieri G

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing immunohistochemical techniques and a panel of monoclonal antibodies that recognize rat cells of monocyte/macrophage lineage, we have demonstrated that cells labeled with these antibodies are widely distributed throughout the parenchyma of the rat brain. These cells have a remarkable microglial morphology and...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Honda H,Kimura H,Silvers WK,Rostami A

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a putative autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) in which autoreactive immune cells recognizing myelin antigens lead to demyelination and axonal injury. Mechanisms relevant to the pathogenesis of MS have not been fully elucidated, particularly those underlying initiation of ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Selmaj I,Mycko MP,Raine CS,Selmaj KW

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed a CA repeat polymorphism localized 46-kb upstream of the Fas ligand gene in Spanish and American populations that include 139 healthy controls and a cohort of 177 unrelated relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The MS patients consisted of two groups, one with a family history of M...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Zayas MD,Lucas M,Solano F,Fernández-Pérez MJ,Izquierdo G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus-induced demyelinating disease (TMEV-IDD) is a well-characterized murine model of the chronic-progressive form of human multiple sclerosis (MS) characterized by the activation of myelin-specific autoreactive CD4 Th1 cells via epitope spreading. To gain an understanding of the po...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Mack CL,Vanderlugt-Castaneda CL,Neville KL,Miller SD

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological damage caused by intoxication with Shiga toxin (Stx) from enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli is the most unrepairable and untreatable outcome of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, and occurs in 30% of affected infants. In this work intracerebroventricular administration of Stx2 in rat brains significantly increas...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Tironi-Farinati C,Loidl CF,Boccoli J,Parma Y,Fernandez-Miyakawa ME,Goldstein J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF is a marker of disease activity in bacterial meningitis. To investigate TNF modulation by Toll-like receptor-2 (TLR2), we studied temporal and anatomical expression patterns of TLR2 and TNF in a pneumococcal meningitis model in wild type (wt) and TLR2(-/-) mice. We show by in situ hybridization that transcripts of...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Letiembre M,Echchannaoui H,Ferracin F,Rivest S,Landmann R

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelin basic protein (MBP)-like material (MBPLM) in human urine is expressed in a cryptic epitope(s) present in MBP peptide 80-89 and absent or inaccessible in intact MBP. These features of urinary MBPLM have made it difficult to produce reagents for its further characterization. Using an immunogen of keyhole limp...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Whitaker JN,McKeehan A,Freeman DW

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines such as interleukin-1 (IL-1) are thought to contribute to the inflammatory response associated with autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis. We assessed the role of IL-1 in an animal model of MS, experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), by testing the effects of treatment with an IL-1 receptor anta...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Martin D,Near SL

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy was first shown to be tightly associated with HLA-DR2 and DQ1 in 1983, suggesting a possible autoimmune mechanism. Early investigations failed to demonstrate this hypothesis, postulating that HLA-DR2 was only a linkage marker for another, unknown narcolepsy-causing gene. The autoimmune hypothesis is now bei...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Lin L,Hungs M,Mignot E

更新日期：2001-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilins have diverse functions that may affect the course of central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory disorders. Anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective mechanisms may be targeted by inhibition of cyclophilin A-dependent and cyclophilin D-dependent functions, respectively. We tested the effect of cyclophilin inhib...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Huang ZL,Pandya D,Banta DK,Ansari MS,Oh U

更新日期：2017-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence suggests a role for brain-gut-microbiota axis in affective disorders including major depression and bipolar disorder (BD). Herein, we aim to explore, by employing germ-free (GF) mice, the effect of the indigenous microbiota in the development of mania-like behavior. Conventional and GF mice were evalu...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： de Miranda AS,Vieira ÉLM,Dos Reis Bastos J,Ferreira RN,Nicoli JR,Teixeira MM,Vieira LQ,Moreira FA,Teixeira AL

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Active immunization with myelin basic protein (MBP) induces experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in a variety of animal species, including rats and mice. We have previously described the ability of the newly described mouse lambda (lambda) variable (V) region V lambda x, to confer MBP reactivity to an Ab. In ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Galin FS,Zhou SR,Whitaker JN,Blalock JE

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D-binding protein (DBP) is known to function as an immunomodulatory factor, as well as the main carrier of vitamin D. We analyzed the frequencies of two polymorphisms (codon 416 and codon 420) in the DBP gene through a case-control study involving 107 Japanese patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 109 heal...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Niino M,Kikuchi S,Fukazawa T,Yabe I,Tashiro K

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid peptides have been reported by many laboratories to modulate in vitro and in vivo cell-mediated and humoral immune responses. However, less attention has been afforded to the class or classes of opioid receptors involved in these immunomodulatory effects. Previous studies by this laboratory indicated that beta-...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Morgan EL

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of the mouse nervous system specific band 1 protein to the putative high molecular weight component of the Na+ channel was investigated using antibody to band 1. Morphologic differentiation of cultured neuroblastoma cells has been reported to increase the quantity of the putative Na+ channel high mole...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Akeson R,Graham K

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients were randomized, in a double blind design, and placed into either a vitamin D supplemented group or a placebo control group. As expected, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels increased significantly following 6 month vitamin D supplementation (17+/-6 ng/ml at baseline to 28+/-8 ng/ml at 6 ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Mahon BD,Gordon SA,Cruz J,Cosman F,Cantorna MT

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that ConA-induced suppressor cell function is defective in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). To assess whether this defect plays a role in disease activity and its reversal is important in recovery, we studied modifications of ConA-induced suppressor cell function ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： De Luca G,Lugaresi A,Iarlori C,Marzoli F,Di Iorio A,Gambi D,Uncini A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacological profile and the anatomical localisation of muscarinic cholinergic receptor subtypes were studied in the pigeon bursa of Fabricius, using radioligand binding and autoradiographic techniques with [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) as a ligand. [3H]QNB was specifically bound to sections of bursa of Fab...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Ricci A,Bronzetti E,Felici L,Ciriaco E,Vega JA,Germanà G

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokine interleukin-1 (IL-1) is involved in a wide range of inflammatory and immune responses. As such, IL-1 could play a role in peripheral nerve repair mechanisms. Specifically, by its already established properties as a regulator of nerve growth factor (NGF) synthesis, and as a chemotactant to macrophages. We ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Rotshenker S,Aamar S,Barak V

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we aimed to investigate whether treatment with an immune modulatory drug had an effect on the distribution of B cell subpopulations in patients with remitting-relapsing multiple sclerosis (RRMS). We investigated the first-line drugs glatiramer acetate, interferon-β and natalizumab. Our data show that the...

journal_title：Journal of neuroimmunology

authors： Rovituso D,Heller S,Schroeter M,Kleinschnitz C,Kuerten S

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00