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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
14
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-8-29
pubmed:abstractText
Oral administration of autoantigens can prevent and partially suppress autoimmune diseases in a number of experimental models, Depending on the dose of antigen fed, this approach appears to involve distinct yet reversible and short-lasting mechanisms (anergy/deletion and suppression) and usually requires repeated feeding of large (suppression) to massive (anergy/deletion) amounts of autoantigens to be effective. Most importantly, this approach is relatively less effective in animals already systemically sensitized to the fed antigen, such as in animals already harboring autoreactive T cells and, thus, presumably also in humans suffering from an autoimmune disorder. We have previously shown that feeding a single dose of minute amounts of antigens conjugated to cholera toxin B subunit (CTB) can effectively suppress delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions in systemically immune animals. We now report that feeding small amounts of myelin basic protein (MBP) conjugated to CTB either before or after disease induction protected rats from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Such treatment was as effective in suppressing interleukin 2 production and proliferative responses of lymph node cells to MBP as treatment involving repeated feeding with much larger (50- to 100-fold) doses of free MBP. Different from the latter treatment, which led to decreased production of interferon-gamma in lymph nodes, low-dose oral CTB-MBP treatment was associated with increased interferon-gamma production. Most importantly, low-dose oral CTB-MBP treatment greatly reduced the level of leukocyte infiltration into spinal cord tissue compared with treatment with repeated feeding of large doses of MBP. These results suggest that the protection from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis achieved by feeding CTB-conjugated myelin autoantigen involves immunomodulating mechanisms that are distinct from those implicated by conventional protocols of oral tolerance induction.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
93
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7196-201
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Cholera Toxin, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Guinea Pigs, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Hypersensitivity, Delayed, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Immunosuppression, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Interferon-gamma, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Interleukin-2, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Lymph Nodes, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Myelin Basic Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Rats, Inbred Lew, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8692968-Transfection
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Treatment of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by feeding myelin basic protein conjugated to cholera toxin B subunit.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't