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Cuttine edge: diabetes-associated quantitative trait locus, Idd4, is responsible for the IL-12p40 overexpression defect in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Oct 2003
Simpson Pedro B, Mistry Monica S, Maki Richard A, Yang Weidong, Schwarz David A, Johnson Eric B, Lio Francisco M, Alleva David G
Abstract excerpt
APCs of the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse have a genetically programmed capacity to overexpress IL-12p40, a cytokine critical for development of pathogenic autoreactive Th1 cells. To determine whether a diabetes-associated NOD chromosomal locus (i.e., Idd) was responsible for this defect, LPS-stimulated macrophages from several recombinant congenic inbred mice with Idd loci on a C57BL/6 background or with...
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