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Differential efficacy of a synthetic antagonist of VLA-4 during the course of chronic relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

Abstract
The integrin VLA-4 has been shown to play a key role in the entry of antigen-specific T cells into the CNS during autoimmune demyelination. Treatment of animals with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model of multiple sclerosis, with antibodies to VLA-4 is known to suppress acute disease. In the present study, a synthetic antagonist of VLA-4 (TBC 3486) was injected subcutaneously into mice adoptively sensitized for chronic relapsing EAE. TBC 3486 was administered daily for 14 days at early (before acute signs) and late time points (during chronic disease). Early treatment led to marked delay in disease onset and reduction in clinical severity and demyelination. After termination of treatment, clinical severity remained lower than in controls for more than 1 week. TBC 3486-treated animals showing no clinical signs (at the height of disease in controls) displayed moderate levels of inflammation but little damage to myelin. Late administration of TBC 3486 to animals with chronic EAE had no effect clinically. Immunocytochemistry and Western blotting of CNS tissue from acutely treated animals supported a moderate shift toward a Th2-type cytokine profile after treatment. Thus, TBC 3486 effectively delayed and reduced the acute (but not chronic) phase of EAE, and this amelioration correlated with changes in the inflammatory molecule profile.
AuthorsBarbara Cannella, Stefanie Gaupp, Ronald G Tilton, Cedric S Raine
JournalJournal of neuroscience research (J Neurosci Res) Vol. 71 Issue 3 Pg. 407-16 (Feb 01 2003) ISSN: 0360-4012 [Print] United States
PMID12526029 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
CopyrightCopyright 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Chemical References
  • Cell Adhesion Molecules
  • Integrin alpha4beta1
Topics
  • Animals
  • Cell Adhesion Molecules (antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis)
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Chronic Disease
  • Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental (drug therapy, metabolism, pathology)
  • Female
  • Integrin alpha4beta1 (antagonists & inhibitors, metabolism)
  • Mice
  • Recurrence
  • Spinal Cord (drug effects, metabolism, pathology)

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