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. 1995 Jun 6;92(12):5312–5316. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.12.5312

Local nitric oxide production in viral and autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system.

D C Hooper 1, S T Ohnishi 1, R Kean 1, Y Numagami 1, B Dietzschold 1, H Koprowski 1
PMCID: PMC41684  PMID: 7539914

Abstract

Because of the short half-life of NO, previous studies implicating NO in central nervous system pathology during infection had to rely on the demonstration of elevated levels of NO synthase mRNA or enzyme expression or NO metabolites such as nitrate and nitrite in the infected brain. To more definitively investigate the potential causative role of NO in lesions of the central nervous system in animals infected with neurotropic viruses or suffering from experimental allergic encephalitis, we have determined directly the levels of NO present in the central nervous system of such animals. Using spin trapping of NO and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, we confirm here that copious amounts of NO (up to 30-fold more than control) are elaborated in the brains of rats infected with rabies virus or borna disease virus, as well as in the spinal cords of rats that had received myelin basic protein-specific T cells.

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