digestive/alimentary system
• mice show increased susceptibility to DSS-induced colitis, showing increased weight loss, decrease in colon length, rapid mucosal damage with greater ulcer formations and frequent transmural inflammatory cell infiltrates consisting mostly of CD11b+ myeloid cells
• however, colons show comparable improvement with signs of intestinal epithelial cell regeneration and tissue repair as in wild-type mice
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immune system
• mice show increased susceptibility to DSS-induced colitis, showing increased weight loss, decrease in colon length, rapid mucosal damage with greater ulcer formations and frequent transmural inflammatory cell infiltrates consisting mostly of CD11b+ myeloid cells
• however, colons show comparable improvement with signs of intestinal epithelial cell regeneration and tissue repair as in wild-type mice
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