Macrophages from disease resistant B2 haplotype chickens activate T lymphocytes more effectively than macrophages from disease susceptible B19 birds.

"The authors give special recognition to Dr. W. Elwood Briles and Mrs. Ruth Briles for whom this manuscript is dedicated and who were responsible for the early recognition of the chicken B haplotypes. We also thank Dr. Briles' technician Ms. Linda Yates and his assistant, Dr. Rene Kopulos for their essential contributions to the development and characterization of these chicken haplotypes. Dr. Maisie Dawes' contributions to the initial development of the macrophage culture technologies cited in this paper are greatly appreciated (Dawes et al., 2014). We also received critical personnel support from the Western University of Health Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine. These studies were funded by grants from the 10.13039/100000199United States Department of Agriculture-National Research Institute (USDA-NRI) #2006-35204-18810, 10.13039/100005825USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) #2008-00875 and the 10.13039/100000199USDA-Cooperative State Research Service Competitive Grants Program (2006-35204-16560)."