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. 1990 Aug;70(4):527–534.

The role of serum factors in the suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis: evidence for immunoregulation by antibody to the encephalitogenic peptide.

I A MacPhee 1, M J Day 1, D W Mason 1
PMCID: PMC1384259  PMID: 1697565

Abstract

Lewis rats immunized with myelin basic protein (MBP) in Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) suffer from a single episode of paralysis from which they recover spontaneously. Subsequent to recovery, further episodes of paralysis cannot normally be induced by reimmunization with MBP in FCA. It is well established that serum, obtained from rats in the refractory state, can suppress the induction of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) when given to animals from the time of immunization with MBP in FCA. Here it is shown that treatment with some such sera from Day 7 after immunization also suppressed the disease. However, not all convalescent sera were suppressive, indicating that rats immunized with MBP in FCA could become refractory to EAE without assayable levels of suppressive activity in their sera. In the context of this result it was notable that a correlation was found between the level of antibody specific for the encephalitogenic peptide in sera and the ability to suppress EAE. An inverse relationship was also shown between the amount of anti-encephalitogenic peptide antibody produced after immunization and the severity of EAE induced. Spleen cells from animals treated with Lewis anti-MBP serum after immunization with MBP in FCA could be activated to transfer EAE by in vitro culture with MBP despite the absence of any clinical signs in the donor animals, i.e. the serum inhibited the expansion or differentiation of these cells rather than preventing their priming or bringing about clonal deletion.

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