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Intestinal inflammation observed in IL-2R/IL-2 mutant mice is associated with impaired intestinal T lymphopoiesis.
Gastroenterology - 1 May 2000
Poussier P, Ning T, Chen J, Banerjee D, Julius M
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Although interleukin (IL)-2(-/-) and IL-2Ralpha(-/-) mice develop inflammatory bowel disease, IL-2Rbeta(-/-) animals are apparently free of gut pathology. Intraintestinal T lymphopoiesis is reported to be impaired in IL-2Rbeta(-/-) mice; we have determined whether this characteristic correlated with the apparent resistance of this mutant strain to intestinal inflammation. This led us to...
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