Perforin and tumor necrosis factor alpha in the pathogenesis of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis: comparison of autoantigen induced and transferred disease in Lewis rats.

Held, Werner; Meyermann, Richard; Qin, Yufen; Mueller, Christoph (1993). Perforin and tumor necrosis factor alpha in the pathogenesis of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis: comparison of autoantigen induced and transferred disease in Lewis rats. Journal of autoimmunity, 6(3), pp. 311-322. Elsevier 10.1006/jaut.1993.1027

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A cell-mediated cytotoxic reaction is believed to be involved in inflammatory lesion formation of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). We compared EAE diseased animals which had either been immunized with myelin basic protein (MBP) or adoptively received MBP specific T-cell lines in order to study whether the different courses of disease induction are reflected by quantitative or qualitative differences in the expression of genes encoding putative mediators of tissue damage, i.e. TNF alpha, and the pore-forming protein perforin. With the appearance of signs of paralysis, both genes are induced in cells within the CNS lesions, whereas drastically reduced numbers of TNF alpha- and perforin gene-expressing cells are observed during recovery, despite the presence of high numbers of mononuclear cells in the CNS. Marked differences, however, exist in the gene expression profiles: during the phase of most severe clinical signs TNF alpha expressing cells are 2 to 3 times more frequent in transferred than immunized animals. In animals with MBP-induced EAE the number of perforin expressing cells represents only 1.6% of the IL2R gene expressing cells, while this fraction represents 25% in mice which received autoaggressive T cells. Thus, the presence of a high number of activated killer cells may accelerate tissue damage and progression of disease in passive EAE whereas in actively induced EAE activation of regulatory mechanisms induced by polyclonal activation after immunization may prevent generation of large amounts of activated cytotoxic T cells.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology
UniBE Contributor:	Müller, Christoph (C)
Subjects:	500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
ISSN:	0896-8411
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Christoph Müller
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2022 06:37
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2023 23:38
Publisher DOI:	10.1006/jaut.1993.1027
PubMed ID:	7691064
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/172948