The postnatal maternal environment affects autoimmune disease susceptibility in A/J mice

Cellular Immunology

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-127

  Case, Laure K ^a   del Rio, Roxana ^a   Bonney, Elizabeth A ^b   Zachary, James F ^c   Blankenhorn, Elizabeth P ^d   Tung, Kenneth S K ^e   Teuscher, Cory ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

A J mice; Autoimmunity; CD4+ T cells; Cross fostered; Maternal environment; Microchimerism

Indexed keywords

A J MOUSE; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; LYMPH NODE; MILK; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DISEASE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMECTOMY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHEMOKINE CXCL1; CYTOKINES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-9; LACTATION; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OVARIAN DISEASES; THYMECTOMY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 71349084063     PISSN: 00088749     EISSN: 10902163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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