Antineuroinflammatory and neurotrophic effects of CNTF and C16 peptide in an acute experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis rat model

• Main Authors: Marong eFang (Author), DaQiang eHe (Author), Fan eZhang (Author), Zhiying eHu (Author), Jing eYang (Author), Hong eJiang (Author), Shu eHan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Experimentalallergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) is an animal model for inflammatory demyelinating autoimmune disease, i.e., multiple sclerosis (MS). In the present study, we investigated the antineuroinflammatory/neuroprotective effects of C16, an ανβ3 integrin-binding peptide, and recombinant rat cili...