Puberty in females enhances the risk of an outcome of multiple sclerosis in children and the development of central nervous system autoimmunity in mice
| Autor: | Ruth Ann Marrie, Jeeyoon Jennifer Ahn, Heather Hanwell, Marina Moshkova, Dessa Sadovnick, Monan Angela Zhang, Shannon E. Dunn, Brenda Banwell, Julia O'Mahony, Amit Bar-Or, Hargurinder Singh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Encephalomyelitis Autoimmune Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Adolescent Central nervous system Demyelinating Autoimmune Diseases CNS medicine.disease_cause Autoimmunity Mice Sex Factors Risk Factors medicine Vitamin D and neurology Demyelinating disease Animals Humans Sexual Maturation Child Autoimmune disease Menarche business.industry Multiple sclerosis Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis Age Factors medicine.disease Disease Models Animal medicine.anatomical_structure Neurology Immunology Female Neurology (clinical) Disease Susceptibility business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England). 21(6) |
| ISSN: | 1477-0970 |
| Popis: | Background: For reasons that remain unclear, three times more women develop multiple sclerosis (MS) than men. This preponderance among women is evident only after 12 years of age, implicating pubertal factors in the risk of MS. Objective: To investigate the influence of female puberty on central nervous system (CNS) autoimmunity. Methods: We examined the relationship between age of menarche on MS outcomes in 116 female children (< 16 years old) whom presented with incident ‘acquired demyelinating syndromes’ (ADS) and were followed prospectively in the national Canadian Pediatric Demyelinating Disease Study, from 2004–2013. Furthermore, we directly investigated the effects of puberty on susceptibility to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in two groups of female mice that differed only in their pubertal status. Results: In the ADS children, a later age of menarche was associated with a decreased risk of subsequent MS diagnosis. This relationship persisted, after accounting for patient age at ADS presentation and the presence of ≥1 T2 lesions on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with a hazard ratio (HR) of 0.64; and additional factors that associate with MS outcomes in ADS children, including low vitamin D levels. Furthermore, we found female mice that had transitioned through puberty were more susceptible to EAE than age-matched, pre-pubertal mice. Conclusion: Puberty in females enhances CNS autoimmune mechanisms that lead to MS in humans and EAE in mice. |
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