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Identification of Orch3, a locus controlling dominant resistance to autoimmune orchitis, as kinesin family member 1C.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2012
del Rio Roxana, McAllister Ryan D, Meeker Nathan D, Wall Emma H, Bond Jeffrey P, Kyttaris Vasileios C, Tsokos George C, Tung Kenneth S K, Teuscher Cory
Abstract excerpt
Experimental autoimmune orchitis (EAO), the principal model of non-infectious testicular inflammatory disease, can be induced in susceptible mouse strains by immunization with autologous testicular homogenate and appropriate adjuvants. As previously established, the genome of DBA/2J mice encodes genes that are capable of conferring dominant resistance to EAO, while the genome of BALB/cByJ mice does not and they...
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