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. 1976 Aug;73(8):2877–2880. doi: 10.1073/pnas.73.8.2877

Abnormal response to minor histocompatibility antigens in Obese strain chickens.

M Jakobisiak, R S Sundick, L D Bacon, N R Rose
PMCID: PMC430785  PMID: 785474

Abstract

Obese strain chickens, which spontaneously develop autoimmune thyroiditis, were tested for their ability to tolerate skin allografts. Several procedures known to prolong graft survival in normal strains were employed. These included the use of skin matched at the major histocompatibility locus, grafting on the day of hatching, thymectomy, and x-irradiation. A dramatic difference between the Obese and the normal Cornell strain (the strain from which Obese was derived) was detected when both were thymectomized and grafted at hatching. Under these conditions eight of 13 normal but only one of 16 Obese strain birds retained their grafts for 50 days. This suggests the presence of an abnormal thymus or thymus-derived suppressor T cells in Obese strain chickens.

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