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Abstract Rabbits were sensitized or immunized with a variety of central nervous system antigens, including bovine spinal cord, bovine, monkey, human, guinea pig, rabbit, and rat S myelin basic proteins, and a polypeptide derived from guinea pig basic protein. The animals were observed for development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, and their sera were collected at varying intervals after inoculation and evaluated for presence of precipitating anti-basic protein antibody and for their ability to inhibit myelin formation in cerebellar tissue cultures. The resulting complete dissociation between development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, the presence of antibasic protein antibody and the occurrence of myelination inhibition factor suggests that myelination inhibition factor is not involved in the pathogenesis of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, and argues against a role for anti-basic protein antibody as an antimyelin factor in vitro.
Seil et al. (Sat,) studied this question.