immune system
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• due to the absense of alpha/beta T cells these Yaa-bearing males do not develop hypergammaglobulinemia, anti-chromatin auto-antibodies, enlarged lymph nodes or spleen, hemolytic anemia, immune complex glomerulonephritis, monocytosis, or the lupus-like autoimmune disease that normally causes premature death in Yaa-bearing males on the BXSB background, but instead these males are reported to live beyond 300 days
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