A Simple Approach to Induce Experimental Autoimmune Neuritis in C57BL/6 Mice for Functional and Neuropathological Assessments

David G Gonsalvez; Jessica L Fletcher; Sang Won Yoo; Rhiannon J Wood; Simon S Murray; Junhua Xiao

Journal article

A Simple Approach to Induce Experimental Autoimmune Neuritis in C57BL/6 Mice for Functional and Neuropathological Assessments

David G Gonsalvez, Jessica L Fletcher, Sang Won Yoo, Rhiannon J Wood, Simon S Murray, Junhua Xiao

JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS | JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.3791/56455

Abstract

Experimental autoimmune neuritis (EAN) is a well-appreciated experimental model of autoimmune peripheral demyelinating diseases. EAN disease is induced by immunizing mice with neurogenic peptides to direct an inflammatory attack toward components of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Recent advances have enabled the induction of EAN in the relatively resistant C57BL/6 mouse line using myelin protein zero (P0)106-125 or P0180-199 peptides delivered in adjuvant combined with the injection of pertussis toxin. The ability to induce EAN in the C57BL/6 strain allows for the use of the numerous genetic tools that exist on this mouse background, and thus allows the sophisticated study of disease p..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

David Gonsalvez Author

Jessica Fletcher Author

Rhiannon Wood Author

Simon Murray Author

Grants

Awarded by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Funding Acknowledgements

DGG is a NHMRC Peter Doherty and Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia (MSRA) Early Career Fellow. JLF is supported by an MSRA Postdoctoral Fellowship. This work was supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grant #APP1058647 to JX.