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Toll‐like receptor 9 signaling protects against murine lupus
29 Dec 2005
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Hypomethylated CpG-containing DNA, which is recognized by Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR-9), has been strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of autoantibody-mediated diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus. This study was undertaken to determine the role of TLR-9 in the MRL/+ and MRL/lpr models of murine lupus. METHODS: TLR-9-deficient MRL mice were generated by backcrossing a TLR-9-deficient allele...
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