Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
experimental allergic encephalomyelitis Function:
noun : an inflammatory autoimmune disease that has been induced in laboratory animals and especially mice byinjecting them with diseased tissue from affected animals or with myelin basic protein and that because of the similarity of its pathology to multiple sclerosis in humans is used as an animal model instudying this condition —abbreviation
EAE; called also
experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
