Table 3. Capacity of 1-9Nac MBP-specific CD4⁺Vβ8.2⁺ T cell clones to induce EAE in vivo by adoptive transfer.

		Severity
Clones	Incidence	Mean	Maximum	Frequency of encephalitogenic clones, %
T cell clones from EAE mice
3EAC3	3/5	2.5	5.0
5EB2	0/5	0	0
6EB9	0/5	0	0
3ED11	0/12	0	0	25
T cell clones from CD8-/EAE mice*
4DC5	5/5	3.2	5.0
4DH2	5/5	3.3	5.0
5DC9	5/5	3.5	5.0
5DH4	5/5	3.4	5.0	100

EAE was induced and evauluated as described in Materials and Methods

^*P < 0.05, value between EAE group and CD8^-/EAE group