WIGHT PA, SILLER WG. FURTHER STUDIES OF EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS IN THE FOWL. II. THE INFLUENCE OF DOSE VARIATIONS ON THE HISTOLOGICAL LESIONS.
Immunology 1963;
6:513-9. [PMID:
14088889 PMCID:
PMC1423342]
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Abstract
The effects of varying the dose of the constituents of an inoculum known to produce EAE in a reciprocal cross of Brown Leghorn fowls have been studied. Large amounts of the emulsifying agent suppressed the severity of the histological lesions. Fifty mg. of homologous spinal cord and 2 mg. of Mycobacterium tuberculosis per bird were found to be the optimum doses necessary to produce consistently severe histological lesions. A standard procedure for inducing EAE for quantitative studies in `B×I' Brown Leghorn fowls was adopted.
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