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The C3H/HeJBir mouse model: a high susceptibility phenotype for colitis.
International reviews of immunology - 1 Jan 2000
Elson C O, Cong Y, Sundberg J
Abstract excerpt
C3H/HeJBir is a substrain of C3H/HeJ mice that was generated by selective breeding for the phenotype of spontaneous colitis. These mice show increased B cell and T cell reactivity to antigens of the enteric bacterial flora. CD4+ T cells from this strain cause colitis, when activated by enteric bacterial antigens and transferred to histocompatible severe combined immunodeficient recipients. The expression of the...
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