Blocked Protein Prevents Lupus In Mouse Model, The Jackson Laboratory And National Institutes of Health (NIH) Study
The Jackson Laboratory -- Bar Harbor, Maine -- Mice from a strain that ordinarily develops systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but bred with a deficiency in receptor for the protein Interleukin 21, stayed healthy and exhibited none of the symptoms of the disease, researchers at The Jackson Laboratory and National Institutes of Health report.