Abstract
To elucidate the early events in Theiler's virus-induced demyelination, a model for human multiple sclerosis (MS), chemokine gene activation in the central nervous system (CNS) resident cells upon viral infection was investigated. Viral infection selectively upregulated RANTES and IP-10 gene expression in primary astrocyte cultures and broader chemokine genes in oligodendrocyte and microglia cultures. Both RANTES and IP-10 were stimulated by proinflammatory cytokine interferon-gamma (IFNγ), but only RANTES by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), suggesting that virus infection induces chemokines overlapping with those inducible by proinflammatory cytokines. These results suggest that glial cells, astrocytes in particular, may be critical for early recruitment of inflammatory cells in the initiation of virus-induced, immune-mediated demyelination.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 166-170 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Neuroimmunology |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2 2001 |
Funding
This work was supported by United States Public Health Service Grants, RO1 NS28752, RO1 NS33008, and PO1 NS23349. JPP was supported by a National MS Society postdoctoral fellowship FG1172-A-1.
Keywords
- Chemokine
- Demyelination
- Glial cell
- Multiple sclerosis
- Theiler's virus
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Immunology and Allergy
- Immunology
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurology
