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Enhanced susceptibility to end-organ disease in the lupus-facilitating NZW mouse strain.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Apr 2003
Xie Chun, Zhou Xin J, Liu Xuebin, Mohan Chandra
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Although the NZW mouse strain is phenotypically normal, fulminant lupus glomerulonephritis (GN) develops when NZW mice are bred to several other strains, such as NZB, BXSB, B6.Sle1, and B6.Yaa. Based on the observation that aging NZW mice exhibit histologic evidence of GN, we sought to test our hypothesis that NZW mice may be more susceptible to immune-mediated renal damage. METHODS: NZW mice, as well...
Topics
- Animals
- Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease
- Blood Urea Nitrogen
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Immune Tolerance
- Immunity, Innate
- Kidney
- Lupus Nephritis
- Male
