title: The hereditarily asplenic-athymic (lasat) mouse as an experimental animal model of lepromatous leprosy: role of the spleen in the formation of lepromatoid lesions.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yogi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D015440:Leprosy, Lepromatous / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude / Q000235:genetics*; D009167:Mycobacterium lepraemurium / Q000254:growth & development*; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000502:physiology*; D013156:Splenectomy