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BXSB/long-lived is a recombinant inbred strain containing powerful disease suppressor loci.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Aug 2007
Haywood Michelle E K, Gabriel Luisa, Rose S Jane, Rogers Nicola J, Izui Shozo, Morley Bernard J
Abstract excerpt
The BXSB strain of recombinant inbred mice develops a spontaneous pathology that closely resembles the human disease systemic lupus erythematosus. Six non-MHC loci, Yaa, Bxs1-4, and Bxs6, have been linked to the development of aspects of the disease while a further locus, Bxs5, may be a BXSB-derived disease suppressor. Disease development is delayed in a substrain of BXSB, BXSB/MpJScr-long-lived (BXSB/ll). We...
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