Collagen-induced arthritis as a model for rheumatoid arthritis.
Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) is an animal model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that is widely used to address questions of disease pathogenesis and to validate therapeutic targets. Arthritis is normally induced in mice or rats by immunization with autologous or heterologous type II collagen in adj...
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| Language: | English |
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2004
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