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The Major Histocompatibility System of the Chicken

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The Major Histocompatibility System in Man and Animals

Abstract

Gallus gallus domesticus-one of the species of the class Aves, occupies an important position in experimental biology. Throughout their ontogeny, chickens provide suitable experimental material for various scientific disciplines, for example, virology, genetics, immunology, and immunogenetics. Experiments carried out in chickens have contributed much to the discovery and analysis of immunological tolerance (Hašek 1953), graft-versus-host (GvH) reaction (Simonsen 1957), and to the discovery of the T- and B-cell systems in animals (Warner 1967). They provided one of the first indications of an effect of the genotype at the major histocompatibility system (MHS) on a variety of physiological traits (Gilmour 1960; Briles 1960, 1964).

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Hála, K. (1977). The Major Histocompatibility System of the Chicken. In: Götze, D. (eds) The Major Histocompatibility System in Man and Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95293-7_9

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95293-7_9

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  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-95295-1

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-95293-7

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

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