All animal studies were approved by the Duke University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee under protocols A175-14-07, A156-17-06, and A107-20-05. C57BL6/J (The Jackson Laboratory, Stock #000664, Bar Harbor, ME), Il-27p28fl/fl;LysMCre+/-, Il-27p28EGFP mice and their littermates or Il-27p28fl/fl mice were used for control. Il-27p28EGFP mice were kindly generated (14 (link)) and provided by Dr. Ross M. Kedl. Il-27p28fl/fl mice (33 (link)) were kindly provided by Drs. Zhinan Yin (Biomedical Translational Research Institute, Jinan University) and Li Fan Lu (University of California San Diego). These mice were bred with LysMCre mice (The Jackson Laboratory, Stock #004781) to generate Il-27p28fl/fl;LysMCre+/- in our laboratory. Mice were maintained under regulated conditions with food and water ad libitum in the pathogenic-free facility at Duke University.
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