Article
The SCID mouse mutant: definition, characterization, and potential uses.
Annual review of immunology - 1 Jan 1991
Bosma M J, Carroll A M
Abstract excerpt
Mice homozygous for the scid mutation (scid mice) are severely deficient in functional B and T lymphocytes. The mutation appears to impair the recombination of antigen receptor genes and thereby causes an arrest in the early development of B and T lineage-committed cells; other hematopoietic cell...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Gene Rearrangement
- Humans
- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
- Lymphocyte Transfusion
- Lymphocytes
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Phenotype
