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Secondary heavy chain rearrangement: a mechanism for generating anti-double-stranded DNA B cells.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 6 Jan 2003
Sekiguchi Debora R, Eisenberg Robert A, Weigert Martin
Abstract excerpt
The chronic graft-versus-host (cGVH) reaction results in a syndrome that closely resembles systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It is induced in nonautoimmune mice by the transfer of alloreactive T cells. The availability of anti-DNA transgenes allows us to study the genetic origins of autoantibodies in this model. We induced cGVH in two anti-DNA H chain site-directed transgenic mouse strains. This resulted in...
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