Article
The effect of xenobiotic exposure on spontaneous autoimmunity in (SWR x SJL)F1 hybrid mice.
Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part A - 1 Mar 2006
Hultman P, Taylor A, Yang J M, Pollard K M
Abstract excerpt
F1 hybrids of SWR (H-2(q)) and SJL (H-2(s)) mice spontaneously develop a lupuslike condition in an age-dependent manner, and these two H-2 haplotypes also confer susceptibility to induction of systemic autoimmunity by heavy metals such as mercury, silver, and gold with anti-fibrillarin antibodies (AFA) as marker. The aim of this study was to determine how the mixing of two susceptible genomes might influence...
Topics
- Age Factors
- Animals
- Antibodies, Antinuclear
- Antibody Formation
- Autoimmunity
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome
- Glomerulonephritis
- Male
- Mercury
