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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Abolins S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5418598 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20170503
The laboratory mouse is the workhorse of immunology, used as a model of mammalian immune function, but how well immune responses of laboratory mice reflect those of free-living animals is unknown. Here we comprehensively characterize serological, cellular and functional immune parameters of wild mice and compare them with laboratory mice, finding that wild mouse cellular immune systems are, comparatively, in a highly activated (primed) state. Associations between immune parameters and infection ...[more]