Targeting insulin-like growth factor 1 leads to amelioration of inflammatory demyelinating disease.

In patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and in mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), proliferating autoreactive T cells play an important role in the pathogenesis of the disease. Due to the importance of these myelin-specific T cells, these cells have been therapeutic targets i...

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Main Authors: Matthew F Cusick, Jane E Libbey, Nikolaus S Trede, Robert S Fujinami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3981810?pdf=render