Synthetic galactocerebrosides evoke myelination-inhibiting antibodies.
Synthetic galactodihydrocerebrosides with widely different fatty acid components can evoke myelination-inhibiting antibodies in rabbits. Whether these are the only such haptens involved in experimental immunizations of other species or in spontaneous human diseases is not yet known.
D000818:Animals; D000937:Antigen-Antibody Reactions; D002554:Cerebrosides / Q000276:immunology*; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000276:immunology* / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits
D002554:Cerebrosides