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Administration of anti‐interleukin‐2 receptor α antibody in vivo induces localized autoimmune disease
1 Jul 1996
Abstract excerpt
Neonatal thymectomy (Tx) of mice at day 3 after birth (Tx-3), but not day 7 (Tx-7), induces organ-localized autoimmune diseases such as oophoritis and gastritis. Lesions in Tx-3 mice can be prevented by injection of splenic CD4+ cells from syngeneic normal mice, and this CD4+ population with suppressor activity is activated extrathymically by self antigens. Since it is speculated that these CD4+ T suppressor...
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