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The Journal of Immunology, 1998, 161: 5097-5104.
Copyright © 1998 by The American Association of Immunologists

Antibodies Against IL-12 Prevent Superantigen-Induced and Spontaneous Relapses of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis1

Cris S. Constantinescu2,*, Maria Wysocka{dagger}, Brendan Hilliard*, Elvira S. Ventura*, Ehud Lavi{ddagger}, Giorgio Trinchieri{dagger} and Abdolmohamad Rostami3,*

* Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; {dagger} The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and {ddagger} Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Neuropathology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Immunization of (PL/J x SJL/J)F1 mice with myelin basic protein (MBP) induces relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Relapses occur 7 to 10 days after recovery from the initial paralysis. Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) A or B, administered after recovery from the initial paralysis, induce immediate relapses. IL-12 is involved in the induction of EAE. Here, we show that SEA and SEB induce IL-12 in splenocytes from (PL/J x SJL/J)F1 mice in vitro and increase the level of IL-12 in the sera of mice treated with these superantigens. IL-12 administration mimics SE in inducing spontaneous relapses and in enhancing the severity and frequency of spontaneous relapses. IL-12 neutralization blocks SE-induced and subsequent relapses of EAE, and, when instituted after recovery from the initial attack, prevents spontaneous relapse. This is the first report of prevention of relapses of EAE with anti-IL-12 Ab, an approach which may prove useful in the prevention of exacerbations in multiple sclerosis.




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