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Mice deficient for the CD40 ligand.
Immunity - 1 Aug 1994
Xu J, Foy T M, Laman J D, Elliott E A, Dunn J J, Waldschmidt T J, Elsemore J, Noelle R J, Flavell R A
Abstract excerpt
To study the potential roles of CD40L in immune responses, we generated CD40L-deficient mice by gene targeting. Similar to the effects of CD40L mutations in humans (hyper-IgM syndrome), CD40L-deficient mice have a decreased IgM response to thymus-dependent antigens, fail altogether to produce an antigen-specific IgG1 response following immunization, yet respond normally to a T-independent antigen, TNP-Ficoll....
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