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Expression of sheep interleukin 23 (IL23A, alpha subunit p19) in two distinct gastrointestinal diseases.
Veterinary immunology and immunopathology - 15 Nov 2012
Gossner Anton G, Venturina Virginia M, Peers Anna, Watkins Craig A, Hopkins John
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This paper reports the sequence of sheep interleukin 23A (p19), and shows that it shares 98% identity with bovine IL23A, 85% with human and 76% with mouse IL23A. It also reports the existence of two allelic variants that differ largely within the region encoding the amino terminal polypeptide signal sequence. An optimized RT-qPCR assay was used to quantify IL23A transcripts in sheep infected with two common...
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