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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Investigating the defects of postnatal global Fli1 deletion in a mouse model

Marden, Grace 13 July 2020 (has links)
Scleroderma (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by dysfunctional immunity, vasculopathy, and fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. There is a poor prognosis for SSc patients and effective therapeutics have not yet been developed. Many mouse models have been developed, but most fail to recapitulate all of the symptoms seen in SSc patients. In this study we characterize a Fli1flox/flox mouse with CAG Cre under the beta-actin promoter. Based on what has been previously described in mice with deletion of Fli1 in specific cell types, we predicted that global postnatal deletion of Fli1 will result in systemic fibrosis, vasculopathy, and inflammation in these mice. The penetrance of a phenotype was highly variable; however, mice that developed a phenotype displayed disorganized vascular networks, fibrosis and proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines in the skin and lungs after 4 and 8 weeks of Fli1 deficiency. Increased macrophage and dendritic cell populations were observed in the lungs after 8 weeks. Fli1flox/flox CAG Cre mice exhibited hair loss after 5 months of Fli1 deletion. Since our experiments focus mainly on the lungs and skin, more experiments are required to characterize these mice to determine if they can be used as a novel animal model of SSc.

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