Pathogenesis of Vasculitis in env-pX Rats

• Ishizu Akihiro

  Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

• Yoshiki Takashi

  Department of Pathology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan GeneticLab, Co., Ltd., Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Abstract

Transgenic rats carrying the env-pX gene of human T-cell leukemia virus type I (env-pX rats) develop necrotizing angiitis resembling human polyarteritis nodosa (PN). In the development of vasculitis in these rats, the thymus plays an important role. In this review, we provide an outline of the pathogenesis of vasculitis observed in env-pX rats, and discuss the developmental mechanism of human necrotizing angiitis such as PN with an unknown cause. (*English Translation of J Jpn Coll Angiol 2009; 49: 17-20.)

Journal

• Annals of Vascular Diseases

  Annals of Vascular Diseases 5 (3), 296-299, 2012

  The Editorial Committee of Annals of Vascular Diseases

Keywords

• vasculitis
• animal model
• thymus
• autoreactive T-cell

Details

• CRID: 1390001205274338688
• NII Article ID: 130004487963
• DOI: 10.3400/avd.ra.12.00063
• ISSN: 18816428
• ISSN: 1881641X
• Text Lang: en
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