Expression of ocular autoantigens in the mouse thymus

The insulin gene is transcribed in the human thymus and transcription levels correlate with allelic variation at the INS VNTR-IDDM2 susceptibility locus for type 1 diabetes

1997 • 931 citations

Insulin expression in human thymus is modulated by INS VNTR alleles at the IDDM2 locus

1997 • 806 citations

Evidence for a differential avidity model of T cell selection in the thymus

1994 • 679 citations

Comparison of three actin-coding sequences in the mouse; Evolutionary relationships between the actin genes of warm-blooded vertebrates

1986 • 678 citations

Positive Selection of Thymocytes

1995 • 604 citations

Experimental Allergic Uveitis. Isolation, Characterization, and Localization of a Soluble Uveitopathogenic Antigen from Bovine Retina

1977 • 527 citations

A new model of autoimmune disease. Experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis induced in mice with two different retinal antigens.

1988 • 451 citations

Ocular infection and immunity

1996 • 392 citations

Mutations in the founder of the MIP gene family underlie cataract development in the mouse

1996 • 266 citations

Immune Privilege and Immune Regulation in the Eye

1990 • 265 citations

alpha A-crystallin is expressed in non-ocular tissues

1992 • 251 citations

Alternative RNA splicing of the murine αA-crystallin gene: Protein-coding information within an intron

1983 • 251 citations

Immunoreactive αA crystallin in rat non-lenticular tissues detected with a sensitive immunoassay method

1991 • 220 citations

Thymic expression of autoantigens correlates with resistance to autoimmune disease.

1997 • 193 citations

Uveoretinitis and pinealitis induced by immunization with interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein.

1986 • 172 citations

A historical review of sympathetic ophthalmia and its epidemiology

1989 • 148 citations

Cloning, expression, and crystallization of recoverin, a calcium sensor in vision.

1992 • 143 citations

Interphotoreceptor Retinoid-binding Protein

1989 • 135 citations

Mouse opsin. Gene structure and molecular basis of multiple transcripts

1990 • 100 citations

Gamma-crystallin family of the mouse lens: structural and evolutionary relationships.

1984 • 83 citations

Autoimmunity in the eye and its regulation

1994 • 74 citations

Induction of experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis and pinealitis by IRBP. Comparison to uveoretinitis induced by S-antigen and opsin

1986 • 72 citations

Thymic expression of myelin basic protein (MBP). Activation of MBP-specific T cells by thymic cells in the absence of exogenous MBP.

1996 • 59 citations

Interaction between two different regulatory elements activates the murine alpha A-crystallin gene promoter in explanted lens epithelia.

1987 • 58 citations

Structural analysis of mouse S-antigen

1988 • 45 citations

Dissociation between humoral and cellular immune responses to lens antigens.

1981 • 35 citations

In VivoMechanisms of Acquired Thymic Tolerance

1997 • 32 citations

The immune response to homologous lens crystallin. I. Antibody production after lens injury.

1982 • 22 citations

The MIP Transmembrane Channel Gene Family

1994 • 22 citations