Mice expressing HLA-DQ6alpha8beta transgenes develop polychondritis spontaneously.

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Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a human autoimmune disease of unknown etiology in which cartilaginous sites are destroyed by cyclic inflammatory episodes beginning, most commonly, during the fourth or fifth decade of life. We have previously described collagen-induced polychondritis that closely mirrors RP occurring in young (6-8 weeks old) HLA-DQ6alphabeta 8alphabeta transgenic Abeta0 mice, following...

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