Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in the absence of a classical delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction. Severe paralytic disease correlates with the presence of interleukin 2 receptor-positive cells infiltrating the central nervous system - PubMed (original) (raw)

Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in the absence of a classical delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction. Severe paralytic disease correlates with the presence of interleukin 2 receptor-positive cells infiltrating the central nervous system

J Sedgwick et al. J Exp Med. 1987.

Abstract

One characteristic of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in all species is the presence of a considerable leukocyte infiltrate in the central nervous system (CNS). By adoptive transfer of EAE into irradiated or nonirradiated Lewis strain rats we now show that the bulk (greater than 90%) of infiltrating cells in the CNS are superfluous to the induction of disease, as lethally irradiated recipients, despite having very few infiltrating cells in the CNS, acquire severe paralytic EAE. The reduction in the level of infiltration in irradiated recipients is selective, however, as both irradiated and nonirradiated diseased animals have very similar numbers of cells expressing IL-2-R. Disease in irradiated recipient animals is associated with substantial submeningeal hemorrhage in the spinal cord and brain stem and similar hemorrhages are found in recipients rendered leukopenic with cytotoxic drugs. Clinical signs of disease and hemorrhage are preventable, however, by administration to the recipient rats of mAbs specific for the CD4 antigen. Classic delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactions are transferable with the same cells that produce EAE in both irradiated and nonirradiated recipient rats, but such transfer of DTH is observed only in nonirradiated recipient animals and not in irradiated rats. Collectively, the findings reported herein support the conclusion that the paralysis characteristic of acute EAE is mediated by the direct action of very small numbers of activated CD4+ lymphocytes that infiltrate the CNS and produce their effects by inducing vascular damage. The findings are not consistent with reports that the lesions in EAE are produced by a classic DTH reaction.

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Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in the absence of a classical delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction. Severe paralytic disease correlates with the presence of interleukin 2 receptor-positive cells infiltrating the central nervous system - PubMed (original) (raw)