Abstract
Chemokines and their G-protein-coupled receptors play important roles in development, homeostasis, and the innate and adaptive immune response. Pathologic chemokine signaling pathways in the peripheral nervous system can be studied in peripheral nerves using human in vitro models of the blood–nerve barrier (BNB) and a reliable model of acute peripheral nerve inflammation called severe murine experimental autoimmune neuritis (EAN). This chapter describes a flow-dependent human leukocyte-BNB trafficking assay and the reliable induction of EAN in female SJL/J mice as tools to study pro-inflammatory chemokine-dependent signaling in peripheral nerves.
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This work was initially supported by a Baylor College of Medicine New Investigator Start-Up Award and grants from the Guillain–Barré syndrome/Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy Foundation International, and is currently supported by National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grants NS073702, NS075212, and NS078226 to EEU.
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Ubogu, E.E. (2013). Chemokine-Dependent Signaling Pathways in the Peripheral Nervous System. In: Cardona, A., Ubogu, E. (eds) Chemokines. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1013. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-426-5_2
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