Mouse models of human autoimmune diseases: Essential tools that require the proper controls

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Morel, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSTIMULATING AGENT; SERUM AMYLOID P;

ALLELE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLASTOCYST; GENE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE STRAIN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYO; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SERUM AMYLOID P-COMPONENT; STEM CELLS;

EID: 19344370236     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020241     Document Type: Review

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