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VIP Loss Impairs Brain Immune Infiltration: Why You Need Neuropeptides for Brain Autoimmunity

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The takeaway

VIP deficiency impaired T-cell infiltration into brain tissue and paradoxically increased resistance to EAE (MS model), revealing VIP's complex role in both enabling and modulating brain autoimmune inflammation.

Key finding

VIP deficiency impaired T-cell infiltration into brain tissue and paradoxically increased resistance to EAE (MS model), revealing VIP's complex role i

What the researchers found

VIP deficiency impaired T-cell infiltration into brain tissue and paradoxically increased resistance to EAE (MS model), revealing VIP's complex role in both enabling and modulating brain autoimmune inflammation.

Why it matters

Relevant for peptide research.

How the study worked

research study.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

emerging evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2010.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.

Common questions

What was studied?
VIP Loss Impairs Brain Immune Infiltration: Why You Need Neuropeptides for Brain Autoimmunity
What was found?
VIP deficiency impaired T-cell infiltration into brain tissue and paradoxically increased resistance to EAE (MS model), revealing VIP's complex role in both enabling and modulating brain autoimmune inflammation.

Read the original research

Vasoactive intestinal peptide loss leads to impaired CNS parenchymal T-cell infiltration and resistance to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(45), 19555-60

Citation

Abad, Catalina; Tan, Yossan-Var; Lopez, Robert; Nobuta, Hiroko; Dong, Hongmei; Phan, Phu; Feng, Ji-Ming; Campagnoni, Anthony T; Waschek, James A. (2010). Vasoactive intestinal peptide loss leads to impaired CNS parenchymal T-cell infiltration and resistance to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(45), 19555-60. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007622107