Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Protects Axons in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis via an Oligodendrocyte-Independent Mechanism

• Melissa M. Gresle ,

  * E-mail: mgresle@unimelb.edu.au

  Affiliations Department of Medicine; The Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Estella Alexandrou,

  Affiliations Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Anatomy, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Qizhu Wu,

  Affiliation Monash Biomedical Imaging & School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

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• Gary Egan,

  Affiliation Monash Biomedical Imaging & School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

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• Vilija Jokubaitis,

  Affiliation Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Margaret Ayers,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Anna Jonas,

  Affiliation Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• William Doherty,

  Affiliation Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Anna Friedhuber,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Gerry Shaw,

  Affiliation McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Michael Sendtner,

  Affiliation Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany

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• Ben Emery,

  Affiliations Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Anatomy, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Trevor Kilpatrick ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Trevor Kilpatrick, Helmut Butzkueven

  Affiliations Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Anatomy, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Helmut Butzkueven

  Contributed equally to this work with: Trevor Kilpatrick, Helmut Butzkueven

  Affiliations Department of Medicine; The Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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