| Literature DB >> 14568974 |
Peggy P Ho1, Paulo Fontoura, Pedro J Ruiz, Lawrence Steinman, Hideki Garren.
Abstract
Bacterial DNA and immunostimulatory CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) activate the innate immune system to produce proinflammatory cytokines. Shown to be potent Th1-like adjuvants, stimulatory CpG motifs are currently used as effective therapeutic vaccines for various animal models of infectious diseases, tumors, allergies, and autoimmune diseases. In this study, we show that the application of an immunomodulatory GpG ODN, with a single base switch from CpG to GpG, can effectively inhibit the activation of Th1 T cells associated with autoimmune disease. Moreover, this immunomodulatory GpG ODN suppresses the severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice, a prototypic Th1-mediated animal disease model for multiple sclerosis.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 14568974 DOI： 10.4049/jimmunol.171.9.4920
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Immunol ISSN： 0022-1767 Impact factor: 5.422