Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
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Ajaib S Paintlia

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• Research Article
  Combinatorial Effect of Metformin and Lovastatin Impedes T-cell Autoimmunity and Neurodegeneration in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
  Author(s): Ajaib S Paintlia, Sarumathi Mohan and Inderjit Singh Ajaib S Paintlia, Sarumathi Mohan and Inderjit Singh
  
  Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an incurable central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating disease affecting several million people worldwide. Due to the multifactorial and complex pathology of MS, FDA approved drugs often show limited efficacy inpatients. We earlier documented that both lovastatin (cholesterol lowering drug) and metformin (anti-diabetic drug) attenuate experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a widely used model of MS via different mechanisms of action. Since combination therapy of two or more agents has advantage over monotherapy, we here assessed the therapeutic efficacy of metformin and lovastatin combination in EAE. We found that suboptimal doses of these drugs in combination had additive effect to attenuate established EAE in treated animals than their individual treatments. Histological, immunohistochemistry and western blotting analyses revealed that the obser.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9899.1000149

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