# A university career in basic and applied avian immunology: important contributions of chicken models for autoimmune diseases

**Authors:** Gisela F. Erf

PMC · DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2026.1797637 · Frontiers in Physiology · 2026-02-11

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- **Diseases:** uveitis (MESH:D014605), autoimmune (MESH:D001327), autoimmune scleroderma (MESH:D012595), Hashimoto's thyroiditis (MESH:D050031), fibrotic disease (MESH:D004194), vasculitis (MESH:D014657), inflammatory (MESH:D007249), autoimmune and other postnatal diseases (MESH:D019052), vitiligo (MESH:D014820), depressed (MESH:D003866), alopecia areata (MESH:D000506), autoimmune vitiligo (OMIM:607836), Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (MESH:D000081029), hypothyroid (MESH:D007037), ascites (MESH:D001201), SLD (MESH:D012729)
- **Chemicals:** T3 (MESH:D014284), T4 (MESH:D013974)
- **Species:** Meleagris gallopavo (common turkey, species) [taxon 9103], Mus musculus (house mouse, species) [taxon 10090], Gallus gallus (bantam, species) [taxon 9031], Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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