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The search for virus in multiple sclerosis brain
DH Gilden
Microbiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
ME Devlin
Departments of Neurology
MP Burgoon
Departments of Neurology
GP Owens
Departments of Neurology
Plaque-periplaque areas from MS brain tissue were explanted and propagated in tissue culture. The same in vitro techniques that successfully rescued measles virus from SSPE brain, papovavirus from PML brain, and HSV from normal human trigeminal ganglia, were applied. MS brain cells were also inoculated into chimpanzees, multiple rodent species, and embryonated hens eggs. No neurologic disease developed in experimentally infected animals, and no cytopathic effect was observed in explanted cells, or after cocultivation or fusion of MS brain cells with indicator cells. Further analysis of explanted and cocultivated cells by indirect immunof luorescence with various antiviral antisera prepared against viruses associated with post-infectious encephalomyelitis, as well as antisera to other ubiquitous viruses, failed to detect viral antigen. Finally, attempts to detect a latent enveloped virus in MS brain cells by ‘superinfecting’ MS brain cells in culture with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) did not reveal a VSV non-neutralizable fraction. Nevertheless, since oligoclonal bands (OGBs) in the CSF of patients with chronic infectious diseases of the CNS are directed against the causative agent, it is likely that OCRs in MS CSF are antibody directed against the agent or antigen that triggered disease. Although the relevant antibody may be scarce relative to irrelevant antibody in MS CSF, and only small amounts of an MS-specific antigen may be present in brain, this report provides a rationale for strategies proposed in our companion report by Owens et al which will allow detection of an MS-specific antigen or its cognate RNA in brain.
Key Words: virus • multiple sclerosis • oligoclonal bands
Multiple Sclerosis, Vol. 2, No. 4,
179-183 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/135245859600200403
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