HOW PURE ARE INBRED STRAINS OF MICE
HOW PURE ARE INBRED STRAINS OF MICE
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10.1016/0167-5699(82)90093-7
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1982-01-01
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BAILEY, DW
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BAILEY, DW
As usejhI as immunologists find the inbred mouse, they cannot help but become disenchanted when they encounter genetically disparate mice in a purportedly inbred strain. Genetic impurity (allogenicity) can arise from a number of sources: incomplete inbreeding, mutation, inadvertent outcrossing, mislabeling, and epistatic and heterozygote selection. In this article DW Bailey discusses these vitiating sources and the appropriate precautions against them.Immunology was the first field of biology to exploit the genetic properties of the inbred mouse and in so doing came up with a major discovery. The muhiple-gene model that defines the genetic basis for the rejection and survival of tissue transplants was formulated by Little and Tyzzer 1 from data on crosses involving the Japanese Waltzing Mouse, an inadvertently inbred strain. That model holds with validity to this date, as demonstrated so well by Snell 2, Moreover, the immunological basis of transplant rejection, as it was conceived at that time 3, was not far from our understanding of it today. However, outside of a few tumor transplant studies immunologists seemed to have parted company with the inbred mouse for about 30 years. Needless to say, the inbred mouse has since gained great popularity in immunological research due to the currently strong interests in identifying and studying the functions of tissue alloantigens and immune response genes; for these studies a homogeneous genome is obligatory. Most of our trust in the properties of the inbred mouse comes from our personal experiences or from published observations on the properties of inbred strains in experiments, and those observations are reinforced by well-developed genetic theory. This trust remains until the genetically exceptional mouse is encountered. Then disappointment and disenchantment ensue.