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A defective Il15 allele underlies the deficiency in natural killer cell activity in nonobese diabetic mice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 May 2010
Suwanai Hirotsugu, Wilcox Martha Angela, Mathis Diane, Benoist Christophe
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The nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse strain has a genetic deficiency in natural killer (NK) cells. This defect underlies this strain's utility in several experimental settings; in particular, it promotes engraftment of human tissue in NOD hosts during the generation of "humanized" mouse models. We h...
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