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The Journal of Immunology, 1999, 162: 1144-1149.
Copyright © 1999 by The American Association of Immunologists

Inhibition of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis by a Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor1

Gabriela Constantin2,*,{dagger}, Carlo Laudanna*,{dagger}, Stefan Brocke{ddagger} and Eugene C. Butcher*

* Laboratory of Immunology and Vascular Biology, Department of Pathology, and Digestive Disease Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 95305, and Center of Molecular Biology in Medicine, Foothill Research Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304; {dagger} Istituto di Patologia Generale, Universitá degli Studi di Verona, Strada le Grazie, Verona, Italy; and {ddagger} National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892

Migration of lymphocytes from the blood into the brain is a critical event in the pathogenesis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Lymphocyte adhesion to brain endothelium is the first step in lymphocyte entry into the central nervous system, leading subsequently to myelin damage and paralysis. In this paper we show that the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, tyrphostin AG490, prevents binding of freshly isolated mouse lymph node cells and of in vivo activated lymphocytes to endothelium of inflamed brain in Stamper-Woodruff adhesion assays. Moreover, AG490 inhibits adhesion of encephalitogenic T cell lines to purified ICAM-1 and VCAM-1, molecules implicated in T cell recruitment into the central nervous system. In contrast, 2-h treatment of T cell lines with high doses of tyrphostin AG490 have no effect on the viability, intracellular calcium elevation induced by Con A or TCR cross-linking, proliferation, or TNF production by Ag-stimulated T cell lines. Systemic administration of AG490 prevents the accumulation of leukocytes in the brain and the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis induced by proteolipid protein, peptide 139–151-specific T cell lines in SJL/J mice. Blood leukocytes isolated from mice treated with tyrphostin AG490 are less adhesive on purified very late Ag-4 ligands compared with adhesion of leukocytes from control animals. Our results suggest that inhibition of signaling pathways involved in lymphocyte adhesion may represent a novel therapeutic approach for demyelinating diseases.




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