Autoimmune diseases developed in athymic nude mice grafted with embryonic thymus of xenogeneic origin

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3350-3359

  Nishigaki Maki, Kaori ^a,b   Takahashi, Toshitada ^a   Ohno, Katsuhiro ^a,b   Morimoto, Takeshi ^a   Ikeda, Hiroshi ^c   Takeuchi, Masaru ^d   Ueda, Minoru ^b   Taguchi, Osamu ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; CD4; Nude mouse; Xenogeneic thymus graft

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EYE; GUINEA PIG; HAMSTER; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; KIDNEY CAPSULE; LACRIMAL GLAND; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; OVARY; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; STOMACH; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SWINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS GRAFT; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CRICETINAE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GUINEA PIGS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPH NODES; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED NZB; MICE, NUDE; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, INBRED F344; SHEEP; SWINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0032822746     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199910)29:10<3350::AID-IMMU3350>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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