Lymphopenic mice reconstituted with limited repertoire T cells develop severe, multiorgan, Th2-associated inflammatory disease.

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Lymphopenia and restricted T cell repertoires in humans are often associated with severe eosinophilic disease and a T cell Th2 bias. To examine the pathogenesis of this phenomenon, C57BL/6 Rag2-/- mice received limited (3 x 10(4)) or large (2 x 10(6)) numbers of CD4 T cells. Three to 5 months after transfer, mice that had received 3 x 10(4) T cells, but not those that received 2 x 10(6), developed fulminant...

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