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This paper reports the effects of supplementation of the diet with linoleic acid on the severity of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in guinea pigs. Clinical signs of disease (e.g. paresis, paraplegia, urinary incontinence), weight loss, frequency of perivascular lesions in the central nervous system and ability of isolated lymph node cells to respond to myelin basic protein in vitro were all reduced by linoleic acid supplementation. Linoleic acid was effective when fed at a dose of 0.5 ml/day from 7 to 21 days after sensitization of the animals with basic protein, i.e., before and during the time in which clinical signs normally appeared. The same daily dose fed from 7 days before to 7 days after sensitization, i.e., ceasing about 7 days before the normal time of appearance of clinical signs, produced no significant effect. Feeding linoleic acid to normal guinea pigs significantly altered the fatty acid composition of their serum and lymph nodes, but not of their brain. Of several possible explantations for the protective effect of lineolic acid in EAE, we considered action by this essential fatty acid on the immune system most likely.
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PMID:Reduction by linoleic acid of the severity of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in the guinea pig. 63 36

The effects of oral administration of linoleic- and gamma-linolenic-acid-rich oils on the clinical and histopathological manifestations of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) were investigated in Lewis rats 7 d post-inoculation. gamma-Linolenic-acid-rich fungal (Mucor javanicus) oil at 500 mg/kg body weight abrogated clinical and histological signs of EAE although at doses of 200 and 1000 mg/kg body weight it was only effective in delaying the onset of clinical disease. Linoleic-acid-rich safflower-seed (Carthamus tinctorius) oil at 500, 750 and 1000 mg/kg body weight decreased the severity of clinical EAE disease in a dose-dependent manner. The effects in healthy animals of orally administered gamma-linolenic-acid-rich fungal oil (500 mg/kg body weight) and linoleic-acid-rich safflower-seed oil (1000 mg/kg body weight) on splenic lymphocyte proliferative responses to the T-cell mitogen concanavalin-A (Con A), membrane fatty acid composition and lymphocyte sub-sets were also studied. Both treatments enhanced the T-cell proliferative response to Con A. There was no significant effect on the proportion of splenic CD8+ or CD4+ lymphocytes. Compositional studies on splenic phosphoglyceride fatty acids of oil-treated animals suggest the above responses were associated with increases in spleen dihomo-gamma-linolenic and arachidonic acids.
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PMID:Prevention of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in Lewis rats by a novel fungal source of gamma-linolenic acid. 854 Dec 76