Graft versus host disease in the bone marrow, liver and thymus humanized mouse model.

Mice bearing a "humanized" immune system are valuable tools to experimentally manipulate human cells in vivo and facilitate disease models not normally possible in laboratory animals. Here we describe a form of GVHD that develops in NOD/SCID mice reconstituted with human fetal bone marrow,...

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Main Authors: Matthew B Greenblatt, Vladimir Vrbanac, Trevor Tivey, Kelly Tsang, Andrew M Tager, Antonios O Aliprantis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3434179?pdf=render