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The brains of 14 dogs with canine distemper encephalitis were examined with immunohistologic techniques to search for immunogobulin in demyelinating lesions. Four types of lesions presumably representing a temporal sequence of lesion development were distinguished. Immunohistologic findings included immunoglobulin bearing lymphoid cells, amorphous Ig containing material, immunoglobulin bound to the tissue and immunoglobulin containing macrophages and astrocytes. The humoral immune response was absent or very minimal in acute lesions and very intense in chronic lesions. It was concluded that early demyelination in canine distemper encephalitis occurs in the absence of a local humoral immune response but that this response may aggravate and accelerate myelin destruction in the later stages of the disease.
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Vandevelde, M., Fankhauser, R., Kristensen, F. et al. Immunoglobulins in demyelinating lesions in canine distemper encephalitis. Acta Neuropathol 54, 31–41 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00691330
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