Specific-Pathogen-Free Conditions Enhance Inflammatory Bowel Disease in T-Cell Receptor Knockout, but not C3H/HeJBir Mice

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 650-655

  Gaskins, H Rex ^a   Vondrak Juergens, Gretchen L ^a   McCracken, Barbara A ^a   Woolsey, Julie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HOUSING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CECUM; COLON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RODENT DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0031404030     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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