The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
Term:
increased susceptibility to experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis
greater likelihood that an organism will develop disease symptoms similar to human sight-threatening inflammatory eye diseases upon induction by peripheral immunization with one of several uveitogenic retinal proteins (or with peptides derived from them), or by the adoptive transfer of lymphocytes specific to these antigens
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
decreased resistance to EAU; decreased resistance to experimental autoimmune uveitis; decreased resistance to experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis; increased susceptibility to EAU; increased susceptibility to experimental autoimmune uveitis