BALB/c sublines are susceptible to both cutaneous and visceral leishmaniases. The Andervont sublines of BALB/c, which include this strain and BALB/cByJ, lack antigenic expression of Qa2 and H2-Q3, but BALB/cJ expresses them (Flaherty et al., 1978 and 1985). Teuscher et al (1985) reported that BALB/cAnPt have an intermediate susceptibility to experimentally induced allergic orchitis (EAO), while BALB/cByJ is highly susceptible and BALB/cJ resistant. Most notably, BALB/cAnPt mice display a very high rate of induction of plasmacytomas, distinct from BALB/cJ, which is resistant to plasmacytoma induction (Merwin and Algire, 1959, Potter et al., 1962 and 1985) . BALB/cJ also differs from other BALB/c sublines in having a variant of Zhx2 and distinctly elevated serum alpha fetoprotein, which is found at reasonably normal levels in BALB/cAnPt (Olsson et al., 1977).

This substrain of BALB/c is characterized by a high rate of plasmacytoma induction.

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