A chronic model of arthritis supported by a strain-specific periarticular lymph node in BALB/c mice

Current animal models of arthritis only partially reflect the complexity of rheumatoid arthritis and typically lack either chronicity or autoantibody formation. Here we describe a model that combines features of antigen-induced arthritis and collagen-induced arthritis, which can be efficiently induc...

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Main Authors: Baddack, Uta, Hartmann, Sven, Bang, Holger, Grobe, Jenny, Loddenkemper, Christoph, Lipp, Martin, Müller, Gerd
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3644064/