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Genetic analysis of resistance to Type-1 Diabetes in ALR/Lt mice, a NOD-related strain with defenses against autoimmune-mediated diabetogenic stress.
Immunogenetics - 1 Oct 2003
Mathews Clayton E, Graser Robert T, Bagley Rebecca J, Caldwell Jason W, Li Renhua, Churchill Gary A, Serreze David V, Leiter Edward H
Abstract excerpt
ALR mice are closely related to type-1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)-prone NOD mice. The ALR genome confers systemically elevated free radical defenses, dominantly protecting their pancreatic islets from free radical generating toxins, cytotoxic cytokines, and diabetogenic T cells. The ALR major histocompatibility complex (MHC) ( H2(gx) haplotype) is largely, but not completely identical with the NOD H2(g7) haplotype,...
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