Characterisation of the horse transcriptome from immunologically active tissues.
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SUBMITTER: Moreton J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4017814 | biostudies-literature | 2014
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Characterisation of the horse transcriptome from immunologically active tissues.
Moreton Joanna J Malla Sunir S Aboobaker A Aziz AA Tarlinton Rachael E RE Emes Richard D RD
PeerJ 20140506
The immune system of the horse has not been well studied, despite the fact that the horse displays several features such as sensitivity to bacterial lipopolysaccharide that make them in many ways a more suitable model of some human disorders than the current rodent models. The difficulty of working with large animal models has however limited characterisation of gene expression in the horse immune system with current annotations for the equine genome restricted to predictions from other mammals ...[more]
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