Article
The role of C5 and T-cell receptor Vb genes in susceptibility to collagen-induced arthritis.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jan 1991
Spinella D G, Jeffers J R, Reife R A, Stuart J M
Abstract excerpt
Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) is a rodent arthritis model in which immunization with heterologous type II collagen induces an inflammatory polyarthritis. Susceptibility to the disease is mediated by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes as well as genes at other loci. Previous studies of the SWR/J mouse strain, which is resistant to CIA despite bearing the susceptible H-2q haplotype, have suggested that...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Arthritis
- Chromosome Deletion
- Collagen
- Complement C5
- Disease Models, Animal
- Disease Susceptibility
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Mice
