Los ratones carecían de moléculas MHC clase II

D Cosgrove1, D Gray, A Dierich

  • 1Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Unité 184 de Biologie Moléculaire de Génie Génétique de l'INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.

Cell
|September 6, 1991
PubMed
Resumen

Los ratones que carecen de las principales moléculas del complejo de histocompatibilidad de clase II muestran reducción de las células T CD4 + y deterioro de las respuestas de las células B, lo que confirma algunas funciones pero revela aspectos novedosos de la diferenciación de los linfocitos.

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