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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-8-2
pubmed:abstractText
This chapter describes four murine models of autoimmune diseases: two related to autoimmune myocarditis and two related to autoimmune thyroiditis. The first model, Coxsackie virus B3 (CB3)-induced myocarditis, results in the development of acute myocarditis in susceptible as well as resistant mouse strains, whereas chronic myocarditis develops only in genetically susceptible mice. CB3-induced myocarditis closely resembles the course of human myocarditis, which is believed to be initiated by viral infection. Mouse cardiac myosin heavy chain has been identified as the major antigen associated with the late chronic phase of viral myocarditis. The second model is cardiac myosin-induced experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM) and, in a modification, cardiac alpha-myosin heavy chain peptide-induced myocarditis. In the EAM model, cardiac myosin or the relevant peptide in Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) is injected subcutaneously into mice. The immune response, the histological changes, and the genetic susceptibility seen in EAM are similar to those of CB3-induced myocarditis. The third model is experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (EAT). EAT can be induced in genetically susceptible strains of mice by immunization with mouse thyroglobulin in FCA or lipopolysaccharide. Mice susceptible to EAT have the H-2A(k), H-2A(s), or H-2A(q) alleles. We describe here a standard technique for the induction of EAT; it was developed in our laboratory and is widely used as a model for studying Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The fourth model presented in this chapter is that of spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis in NOD.H2h4 mice. These mice express the H-2A(k) allele on an NOD genetic background and develop spontaneous thyroiditis, which is exacerbated with dietary iodine.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1543-1894
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
102
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
175-93
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Autoantigens, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Autoimmune Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Coxsackievirus Infections, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Enterovirus B, Human, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Immunization, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Mice, Inbred NOD, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Mice, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Myocarditis, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Myosin Heavy Chains, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Thyroglobulin, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Thyroiditis, Autoimmune, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Vero Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Viral Plaque Assay, pubmed-meshheading:15286386-Virus Cultivation
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Animal models for autoimmune myocarditis and autoimmune thyroiditis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article