Genetic Susceptibility to Experimental Autoimmune Uveoretinitis in the Rat Is Associated with an Elevated Th1 Response

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2668-2675

  Caspi, Rachel R ^a   Silver, Phyllis B ^a   Chan, Chi Chao ^a   Sun, Bing ^a   Agarwal, Rajeev K ^a   Wells, Jana ^b   Oddo, Steven ^a   Fujino, Yujiro ^a   Najafian, Fatemeh ^a   Wilder, Ronald L ^b  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEWIS RAT; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RAT; RETINITIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TH1 CELL; UVEITIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RETINITIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TH1 CELLS; UVEITIS;

EID: 0030587090     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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