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The lesions of cyclosporine-induced autoimmune disease can be equally well elicited by CD4 or CD8 effector T cells.
Transplantation - 27 Nov 1996
Beijleveld L J, Damoiseaux J G, Roglic M, Theofilopoulos A N, van Breda Vriesman P J
Abstract excerpt
Lethally irradiated Lewis rats reconstituted with syngeneic bone marrow and given cyclosporine for 4 weeks develop a graft-versus-host-like disease upon withdrawal of CsA. Autoreactive T cells inducing this thymus-dependent autoimmune disease, termed CsA-AI, are demonstrable by adoptive transfer, provided regulatory cells in recipient rats are eliminated. Earlier studies have not unequivocally defined the...
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