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The Complex Association of FcγRIIb With Autoimmune Susceptibility.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2019
Verbeek J Sjef, Hirose Sachiko, Nishimura Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
FcγRIIb is the only inhibitory Fc receptor and controls many aspects of immune and inflammatory responses. The observation 19 years ago that FcγRIIb-/- mice generated by gene targeting in 129 derived ES cells developed severe lupus like disease when backcrossed more than 7 generations into C57BL/6 background initiated extensive research on the functional understanding of this strong autoimmune phenotype. The...
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