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Induction of Antibodies Reactive with SSA/Ro-SSB/La and Development of Congenital Heart Block in a Murine Model
1 Dec 1998
Abstract excerpt
To correlate the arrhythmogenic effects of maternal autoantibodies with the genesis of congenital heart block, female BALB/c mice were immunized with human recombinant 48-kDa SSB/La, 60-kDa SSA/Ro, 52-kDa SSA/Ro (52alpha), and 52beta (amino acids 169-245 deleted) as well as with murine recombinant 52-kDa SSA/Ro. Control animals received beta-galactosidase or a polypeptide encoded by pET-28 alone. Following...
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