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Exacerbated susceptibility to infection-stimulated immunopathology in CD1d-deficient mice.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Jun 2005
Smiley Stephen T, Lanthier Paula A, Couper Kevin N, Szaba Frank M, Boyson Jonathan E, Chen Wangxue, Johnson Lawrence L
Abstract excerpt
Mice lacking functional CD1d genes were used to study mechanisms of resistance to the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Wild-type (WT) BALB/c mice, CD1d-deficient BALB/c mice, and WT C57BL/6 mice all survived an acute oral infection with a low dose of mildly virulent strain ME49 T. gondii cysts. In contrast, most CD1d-deficient C57BL/6 mice died within 2 wk of infection. Despite having parasite burdens that...
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