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EXPERIMENTAL allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) is a demyelinating disease which is induced by challenging experimental animals with a basic protein of myelin1–6. Myelin has long been presumed metabolically inert, but recent evidence indicates that there may be a turnover of some of the lipids7,8. One study has indicated a moderate turnover of proteolipid but little turnover of basic protein9. The present studies were undertaken to determine whether the basic protein is metabolically dynamic or stable.
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WOOD, J., KING, N. Turnover of Basic Protein of Rat Brain. Nature 229, 56–58 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229056a0
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