Contributions of Farm Animals to Immunology

Overview

Journal Front Vet Sci

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2018 Dec 22

PMID 30574508

Citations 18

Authors

Efrain Guzman

Maria Montoya

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Abstract

By their very nature, great advances in immunology are usually underpinned by experiments carried out in animal models and inbred lines of mice. Also, their corresponding knock-out or knock-in derivatives have been the most commonly used animal systems in immunological studies. With much credit to their usefulness, laboratory mice will never provide all the answers to fully understand immunological processes. Large animal models offer unique biological and experimental advantages that have been and continue to be of great value to the understanding of biological and immunological processes. From the identification of B cells to the realization that γδ T cells can function as professional antigen presenting cells, farm animals have contributed significantly to a better understanding of immunity.

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