Immunopathogenesis of autoimmune tubulointerstitial nephritis. II. Role of an immune response gene linked to the major histocompatibility complex

Hyman, L.R.; Steinberg, A.D.; Colvin, R.B.; Bernard, E.F.

Journal of Immunology 117(5 Pt.2): 1894-1897

1976


ISSN/ISBN: 0022-1767
PMID: 993586
Document Number: 103326
Immunisation of strain-XIII guinea-pigs with rabbit renal tubular basement membranes consistently resulted in severe autoimmune tubulointerstitial nephritis. Strain-II guinea-pigs similarly immunised did not develop this disease. The responses of F1 guinea-pigs were found to be intermediate between those of strain-II and strain-XIII animals. The results of these and other experiments suggest that susceptibility to autoimmune tubulointerstitial nephritis in the guinea-pig is linked to the strain-XIII major histocompatibility complex, and that an immune response gene governing this susceptibility may be inherited as a single dominant or codominant trait.

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