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Genetic control of immune responses in chickens

I. Responses to a terpolymer of poly(Glu60Ala30Tyr10) associated with the major histocompatibility complex

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The immune response of inbred lines of chickens to the terpolymer poly(glu60ala30tyr10) and copolymer poly(glu60ala40) was determined. Of six lines immunized, one (line 7) contained birds that either did not respond or were low responders to two injections of 1 mg each of the polymers in Freund's complete adjuvant. As indicated by radioimmunoelectrophoresis, low responders produced a 7S response, although the switch from 17S (high molecular weight immunoglobulin) to 7S antibody production was slower than in high-responder lines. Analysis of the distribution of responders and nonresponders in F2 generations produced byinter se mating of F1 hybrids of line 7 with high-responder lines, showed that immune responses were clearly determined by certain alloalleles of theB blood group locus, the major histocompatibility system in the chicken.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii, 96822, Honolulu, Hawaii

    Albert A. Benedict & Leonard W. Pollard

  2. Department of Avian Sciences, University of California, 95616, Davis, California

    Phillip R. Morrow & Hans A. Abplanalp

  3. Department of Biochemistry, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 19106, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Paul H. Maurer

  4. Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, 60115, DeKalb, Illinois

    W. Elwood Briles

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Benedict, A.A., Pollard, L.W., Morrow, P.R. et al. Genetic control of immune responses in chickens. Immunogenetics 2, 313–324 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01572300

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