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Induction of immune-mediated hearing loss in SCID mice by injection of MRL/lpr mouse spleen cells.
Hearing research - 1 Mar 1998
Iwai H, Tomoda K, Hosaka N, Miyashima S, Suzuka Y, Ikeda H, Lee S, Inaba M, Ikehara S, Yamashita T
Abstract excerpt
Induction of immune-mediated hearing loss in SCID mice by injection of MRL/lpr mouse spleen cells The MRL/lpr mouse, which has a mutation in the Fas gene encoding a cell-surface receptor for apoptosis, shows an accumulation of abnormal immunocompetent cells and SLE-like disease. It has recently been reported that this mouse also manifests sensorineural hearing loss (SHL) with cochlear pathology at 20 weeks of...
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