Figure 1From: The plasminogen activator system: involvement in central nervous system inflammation and a potential site for therapeutic intervention Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is aggravated in mice deficient for the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA −/− ), or the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR −/− ). (A) EAE clinical severity in uPA−/− mice and control wild-type (WT) mice. (B) EAE clinical severity in uPAR−/− mice and control WT mice. (A,B) Results are expressed as the mean clinical score ± standard error (SE) of three separate experiments (*P<0.05).Back to article page