The effect of fostering nude mice with allogeneic mothers on subsequent mortality.
Mortality in nude mice fostered by allogeneic mothers was studied. The data failed to support the hypothesis that mortality was due to graft versus host disease resulting from the passage of immunocomponent cells to the young in the mothers' milk. It was apparent that there were significant differences in the ability of mothers of different strains to rear nude mice.
D000818:Animals; D000921:Antibody-Producing Cells; D006087:Graft vs Host Reaction; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude / Q000276:immunology*; D009035:Mothers; D013391:Sucking Behavior