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Serum from interferon-{beta}-1b-treated patients with early multiple sclerosis stabilizes the blood-brain barrier in vitro.
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PMID:  21844066     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Interferon-β (IFN-β) stabilizes the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in vitro. Here we investigated the effect of serum from 15 IFN-β-1b-treated multiple sclerosis (MS) patients on the permeability read-outs of small solutes in an in vitro BBB model consisting of human brain microvascular endothelial cells in co-culture with rat astrocytes. The addition of sera from IFN-β-treated patients resulted in a significantly (p < 0.05) reduced permeability as compared with untreated patients. Our findings show that sera from IFN-β-1b-treated MS patients have a stabilizing effect on the in vitro BBB. We suggest an unknown potentially pro-inflammatory factor in the serum of MS patients that may lead to a BBB dysfunction and can be modulated by IFN-β.
Authors:
Marcus Müller; Achim Frese; Isabelle Nassenstein; Maike Hoppen; Martin Marziniak; Erich Bernd Ringelstein; Kwang Sik Kim; Wolf-Rüdiger Schäbitz; Jörg Kraus
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-8-15
Journal Detail:
Title:  Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1477-0970     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-8-16     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9509185     Medline TA:  Mult Scler     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Münster, Münster/Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
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