title: Hyperphenylalaninaemia and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.
abstract: Previous suggestions to the effect that a reduced proportion of long chain and unsaturated fatty acids in the CNS as induced by experimental hyperphenylalaninaemia in young rats may alter the biochemical reactivity and stability of the myelin have been examined using experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). Lewis rats treated chronically with phenylalanine during development showed a higher susceptibility to EAE and a more severe course of the disease than their medium-treated litter mates. The possible implications of this observation for EAE as an experimental model of multiple sclerosis (MS) is discussed briefly in the light of the decreased levels of unsaturated fatty acids found in the CNS of MS patients.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004681:Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism*; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000378:metabolism; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000378:metabolism; D010649:Phenylalanine / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated; D010649:Phenylalanine