Article
Altered procollagen mRNA expression during the progression of avian scleroderma.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Oct 1997
Ausserlechner M J, Sgonc R, Dietrich H, Wick G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Spontaneous animal models of human autoimmune diseases provide the means to study the very first pathogenetic events, which is not possible in their human counterparts. This is particularly true for connective tissue diseases in which clinical symptoms become manifest only after a lon...
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Animals
- Antisense Elements (Genetics)
- Chickens
- Comb and Wattles
- Connective Tissue Diseases
- Disease Models, Animal
- Disease Progression
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Variation
- Procollagen
- RNA, Messenger