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Exacerbated experimental colitis in TNFAIP8-deficient mice.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Jun 2015
Sun Honghong, Lou Yunwei, Porturas Thomas, Morrissey Samantha, Luo George, Qi Ji, Ruan Qingguo, Shi Songlin, Chen Youhai H
Abstract excerpt
The TNF-α-induced protein 8 (TNFAIP8 or TIPE) is a risk factor for cancer and bacterial infection, and its expression is upregulated in a number of human cancers. However, its physiologic and pathologic functions are unclear. In this study, we describe the generation of TIPE-deficient mice and their increased sensitivity to colonic inflammation. TIPE-deficient mice were generated by germ line gene targeting and...
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