Imatinib Ameliorates Neuroinflammation in a Rat Model of Multiple Sclerosis by Enhancing Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity and by Modulating the Peripheral Immune Response

• Milena Z. Adzemovic ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milena Z. Adzemovic, Manuel Zeitelhofer

  Affiliation Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Manuel Zeitelhofer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milena Z. Adzemovic, Manuel Zeitelhofer

  Current address: Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  Affiliation Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ulf Eriksson,

  Affiliation Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Tomas Olsson ,

  * E-mail: ingrid.nilsson@ki.se (IN); tomas.olsson@ki.se (TO)

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Neuroimmunology Unit, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ingrid Nilsson

  * E-mail: ingrid.nilsson@ki.se (IN); tomas.olsson@ki.se (TO)

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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