Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

EGFL7 reduces CNS inflammation in mouse

  • Catherine Larochelle,
  • Timo Uphaus,
  • Bieke Broux,
  • Elizabeth Gowing,
  • Magdalena Paterka,
  • Laure Michel,
  • Nevenka Dudvarski Stankovic,
  • Frank Bicker,
  • Florent Lemaître,
  • Alexandre Prat,
  • Mirko H. H. Schmidt,
  • Frauke Zipp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03186-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Endothelial cells release extracellular matrix components that regulate inflammation. Here the authors demonstrate that the extracellular matrix component epidermal growth factor-like protein 7 regulates inflammation in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in the mouse.