Transgenic animals

JW Gordon - International review of cytology, 1989 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the mechanisms of foreign DNA integration in
transgenic mice. The fundamentals of gene regulation revealed by transgenic mice are …

Chronic overproduction of islet amyloid polypeptide/amylin in transgenic mice: lysosomal localization of human islet amyloid polypeptide and lack of marked …

JWM Höppener, JS Verbeek, EJP De Koning… - Diabetologia, 1993 - Springer
Summary Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is characterised by
hyperglycaemia, peripheral insulin resistance, impaired insulin secretion and pancreatic …

T cell reactivity to MHC molecules: immunity versus tolerance

J Sprent, EK Gao, SR Webb - Science, 1990 - science.org
The specificity of mature CD8+ and CD4+ T lymphocytes is controlled by major
histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and class II molecules, respectively. The MHC …

Non-deletional mechanisms of peripheral and central tolerance: studies with transgenic mice with tissue-specific expression of a foreign MHC class I antigen.

GJ Hämmerling, G Schönrich, F Momburg… - Immunological …, 1991 - europepmc.org
The studies described here reveal a surprising variety of non-deletional manifestations of
tolerance (anergy and unresponsiveness) in both the thymus and peripheral lymphoid …

Autoimmunity induction by human T cell leukemia virus type 1 in transgenic mice that develop chronic inflammatory arthropathy resembling rheumatoid arthritis in …

Y Iwakura, S Saijo, Y Kioka… - … (Baltimore, Md.: 1950 …, 1995 - journals.aai.org
We recently reported on an inflammatory arthropathy resembling rheumatoid arthritis that
develops in high incidence among transgenic mice that carry the env-pX region of the …

Immunologic tolerance: collaboration between antigen and lymphokines

GJV Nossal - Science, 1989 - science.org
Immunologic tolerance is the process whereby limits are placed on the degree to which
lymphocytes respond to an animal's inherent antigens. It is a quantitative rather than an …

Expression of NGF in sympathetic neurons leads to excessive axon outgrowth from ganglia but decreased terminal innervation within tissues

GW Hoyle, EH Mercer, RD Palmiter, RL Brinster - Neuron, 1993 - cell.com
The effects of nerve growth factor (NGF) on sympathetic axon growth were investigated by
generating transgenic mice in which the p subunit of NGF was expressed in sympathetic …

[HTML][HTML] Induction of GVHD-like skin disease by passively transferred CD8+ T-cell receptor transgenic T cells into keratin 14-ovalbumin transgenic mice

A Shibaki, A Sato, JC Vogel, F Miyagawa… - Journal of investigative …, 2004 - Elsevier
To understand the mechanisms involved in immunological tolerance to skin-associated
antigens, we have developed transgenic (Tg) mice that express a model self-antigen …

Islet expression of interferon-α precedes diabetes in both the BB rat and streptozotocin-treated mice

X Huang, B Hultgren, N Dybdal, TA Stewart - Immunity, 1994 - cell.com
The mechanism (s) leading to p cell dysfunction in type I diabetes has not been defined. We
have investigated whether islet expression of IFNa could be a cause of the lesions that are …

Transgenic mice with IA on islet cells are normoglycemic but immunologically intolerant

J Böhme, K Haskins, P Stecha, W Van Ewijk, M LeMeur… - Science, 1989 - science.org
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is caused by a specific loss of the insulin-
producing beta cells from pancreatic Langerhans islets. It has been proposed that aberrant …