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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5547
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-26
pubmed:abstractText
Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease, characterized by inflammation in the brain and spinal cord, possibly due to autoimmunity. Large-scale sequencing of cDNA libraries, derived from plaques dissected from brains of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), indicated an abundance of transcripts for osteopontin (OPN). Microarray analysis of spinal cords from rats paralyzed by experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model of MS, also revealed increased OPN transcripts. Osteopontin-deficient mice were resistant to progressive EAE and had frequent remissions, and myelin-reactive T cells in OPN-/- mice produced more interleukin 10 and less interferon-gamma than in OPN+/+ mice. Osteopontin thus appears to regulate T helper cell-1 (TH1)-mediated demyelinating disease, and it may offer a potential target in blocking development of progressive MS.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
23
pubmed:volume
294
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1731-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Expressed Sequence Tags, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Gene Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Gene Expression Profiling, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Gene Library, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Inflammation, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Interferon-gamma, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Interleukin-10, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Multiple Sclerosis, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Osteopontin, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Sialoglycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Spinal Cord, pubmed-meshheading:11721059-Th1 Cells
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
The influence of the proinflammatory cytokine, osteopontin, on autoimmune demyelinating disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Beckman Center for Molecular Medicine, B002, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't