Regulation of the immune tolerance system determines the susceptibility to HLA-mediated abacavir-induced skin toxicity

Using a transgenic mouse model that recapitulates abacavir hypersensitivity syndrome, an idiosyncratic adverse drug reaction, Susukida et al show that individual differences in the immune tolerance system affect the susceptibility to idiosyncratic drug toxicity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Takeshi Susukida, Saki Kuwahara, Binbin Song, Akira Kazaoka, Shigeki Aoki, Kousei Ito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-09-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02657-2