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Genetic susceptibility to food allergy is linked to differential TH2-TH1 responses in C3H/HeJ and BALB/c mice.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 May 2003
Morafo Vivian, Srivastava Kamal, Huang Chih-Kang, Kleiner Gary, Lee Soo-Young, Sampson Hugh A, Li AndXiu-Min
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BACKGROUND: Although food allergy is a serious health problem in westernized countries, factors influencing the development of food allergy are largely unknown. Appropriate murine models of food allergy would be useful in understanding the mechanisms underlying food allergy in human subjects. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the susceptibility of different strains of mice to food hypersensitivity. METHODS:...
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