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@ARTICLE{Lowinski:275886,
author = {Lowinski, Anna and Dabringhaus, Andreas and Kraemer,
Matthias and Doshi, Hardik and Weier, Alicia and Hintze,
Maik and Chunder, Rittika and Kuerten, Stefanie},
title = {{MRI}-based morphometric structural changes correlate with
histopathology in experimental autoimmune
encephalomyelitis.},
journal = {Journal of the neurological sciences},
volume = {468},
issn = {0022-510X},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00121},
pages = {123358},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neurohistopathology
are important correlates for evaluation of disease
progression in multiple sclerosis (MS). Here we used
experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) as an animal
model of MS to determine the correlation between clinical
EAE severity, MRI and histopathological parameters.N = 11
female C57BL/6J mice were immunized with human myelin
oligodendrocyte glycoprotein 1-125, while N = 9 remained
non-immunized. Mice were scanned longitudinally over a
period of 13 weeks using a 11.7 Tesla (T) Bruker BioSpec®
preclinical MRI instrument, and regional volume changes of
the lumbar spinal cord were analyzed using Voxel-Guided
Morphometry (VGM). Following the final in vivo T1-weighted
MRI scan, the lumbar spinal cord of each mouse was subjected
to an ex vivo MRI scan using T1-, T2*- and diffusion tensor
imaging (DTI)-weighted sequences. Tissue sections were then
stained for immune cell infiltration, demyelination,
astrogliosis, and axonal damage using hematoxylin-eosin
staining and immunohistochemistry.While in vivo MRI VGM
detected an overall increase in volume over time, no
differences were observed between EAE animals and controls.
Ex vivo MRI showed a generalized atrophy of the spinal cord,
which was pronounced in the anterolateral tract. The most
striking correlation was observed between EAE score, white
matter atrophy in ex vivo T1-weighted scans and histological
parameters.The data demonstrate that ex vivo MRI is a
valuable tool to assess white matter atrophy in EAE, which
was shown to be directly linked to the severity of EAE and
spinal cord histopathology.},
keywords = {Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental: pathology /
Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental: diagnostic
imaging / Animals / Female / Mice, Inbred C57BL / Magnetic
Resonance Imaging: methods / Spinal Cord: pathology / Spinal
Cord: diagnostic imaging / Mice / Disease Models, Animal /
Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein: immunology / Diffusion
Tensor Imaging: methods / Experimental autoimmune
encephalomyelitis (Other) / Magnetic resonance imaging
(Other) / Multiple sclerosis (Other) / T1 (Other) / T2
(Other) / T2* (Other) / Voxel-guided morphometry (Other) /
Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {SAMRI / CRFS},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1040270 / I:(DE-2719)1040000},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:39729930},
doi = {10.1016/j.jns.2024.123358},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/275886},
}