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:
decreased susceptibility to graft versus host disease
less likelihood of developing clinical symptoms of anorexia, diarrhea, loss of hair, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, growth retardation, and eventual death brought about by the a graft versus host reaction, which is an immunological attack mounted by a graft against the host because of tissue incompatibility when immunologically competent cells are transplanted to an immunologically incompetent host
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
decreased susceptibility to GVHD; decreased susceptibility to graft vs host disease; increased resistance to GVHD; increased resistance to graft versus host disease; increased resistance to graft vs host disease; reduced susceptibility to graft versus host disease