Encephalomyelitis

Reports add new data to encephalomyelitis research

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 9th, 2005

Data on encephalomyelitis are outlined in reports from Sweden and the United States.

Study 1: Dendritic cells exposed to estrogen in vitro exhibit therapeutic effects in ongoing experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.

According to a study from Sweden, "Immunomodulatory effects of estrogen have been demonstrated by clinical and experimental observations, but the mechanisms by which estrogen exhibits the effects remain to be defined. One possible mechanism by which estrogen inhibits the development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), a commonly used model of multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans, is over the functions of dendritic cells...

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