Efeito prolilático da associaçao de MOG com vitamina D na encefalomielite autoimune experimental

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Mimura, Luiza Ayumi Nishiyama [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Glicoproteinas; Esclerose multipla; Vitamina D; Doenças auto-imunes; Glycoproteins; Vitamin D
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/131972; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/06-10-2015/000850466.pdf

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). As there is no cure for this disease, new prophylactic or therapeutic strategies are necessary. The main objective of this work was to evaluate the prophylactic potential of the association of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) with vitamin D3 in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). C57BL/6 mice were immunized with MOG associated with vitamin D3 and then submitted to EAE induction. Animals were euthanized 7 and 19 days after, during the preclinical and acute disease phases, respectively. The following parameters were evaluated: body weight, clinical score, inflammatory process in the CNS, amount of dendritic and regulatory T cells in the spleen and cytokine production by spleen and CNS cell cultures. Immunization with MOG associated with vitamin D3 blocked clinical EAE development. This prophylactic effect was associated with a drastic reduction in clinical score, body weight loss, CNS inflammation, dendritic cells maturation and also in the production of cytokines by CNS and spleen cell cultures. This association was therefore highly tolerogenic, being able to avoid EAE development. A similar effect from vitamin D3 association with other specific self-antigens is expected in other autoimmune conditions and deserves future evaluation