TNF and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis: Indeed, fetuses of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)‐treated dams have shown astrogliosis, extensive cell death and an increased number of cells producing TNF‐α (Chua et al., 2012), and exhibited more severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in adult offspring with parallel exacerbated proliferation in microglia and astrocytes (Zager et al., 2015).