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Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein (MOG35-55) Induced Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) in C57BL/6 Mice
Published on: April 15, 2014
Of mice and men: experimental autoimmune encephalitis and multiple sclerosis
Adam E Handel1, Matthew R Lincoln, Sreeram V Ramagopalan
1Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Background:
Research using experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE) models accounts for almost 20% of the papers. published in multiple sclerosis (MS).
Methods:
We performed a literature review of papers indexed with ISI Web of Science on EAE and MS over the last 30 years and a detailed analysis of studies of molecular pathways in EAE published in 2008 and 2009.
Results:
The impact of EAE studies declines more rapidly than other studies published on MS (EAE cited corrected half-life = 4·00 years vs. MS cited corrected half-life = 9·66 years, P < 0·0001). The pathology of EAE differs quite markedly from that observed in the human disease. EAE has implicated many different genes as important to pathogenesis but only a minority of these are supported by human studies.
Conclusions:
Future research should critically appraise precisely what is being modelled by EAE before drawing conclusions about human disease.
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