"Induction of Autoimmune Hepatitis and Autoantibodies to Liver Antigens by Neonatal Thymectomy in Mice."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Clinical and Experimental Immunology, "We examined development of autoimmune hepatitis in neonatally thymectomized C3H/HeN mice and tried to characterize the nature of liver antigens recognized by the autoantibodies at the molecular level. Autoantibodies to crude liver proteins detected by ELISA were found in 12 (67%) of 18 mice thymectomized 2 days after birth. However, autoantibodies were not detected in mice thymectomized 7 days after birth. The autoantibodies mainly consisted of IgG and reached the maximum level 8 weeks after birth. Hepatic inflammation, mononuclear cell infiltration in the portal area, was seen in 5...

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