Donor mice were induced with active EAE as described above, but without pertussis toxin. Eleven days after active EAE induction, dLN cells were collected, RBC lysed, and incubated in 10% RPMI containing 10% FBS (Cat#SZ-0501, Hooke Laboratories Inc., MA, USA) with 20 µg/ml MOG
35–55 peptide (Mimotopes, Victoria, Australia), 10 µg/ml
anti-mouse IFNγ (Cat#BE0055, Bio X Cell, NH, USA), 20 ng/ml
recombinant mouse IL-23 (Cat#589004, Biolegend, CA, USA) at 3 million cells/ml for 72 h at 37 °C, 5% CO
2, for in vitro reactivation. In vitro reactivated mouse CD4
+ T cells were purified as above, and 20 million in vitro reactivated CD4
+ T cells were transferred into recipient mice intraperitoneally. Clinical scoring of recipient mice was performed starting 5 days following adoptive/passive transfer of in vitro reactivated CD4
+ T cells, every day until the completion of the experiment.
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