Identification of quantitative trait loci governing arthritis severity and humoral responses in the murine model of Lyme disease

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 948-956

  Weis, Janis J ^a   McCracken, Barbara A ^b   Ma, Ying ^a   Fairbairn, Daryl ^b   Roper, Randall J ^b   Morrison, Tom B ^a   Weis, John H ^a   Zachary, James F ^b   Doerge, R W ^c   Teuscher, Cory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 9; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST RESISTANCE; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHRITIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HEART; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0033555788     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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