Induction of susceptibility to HgCl2 immune glomerulonephritis in the Lewis rat by immunocompetent cells from susceptible F1 hybrids.

Susceptibility to HgCl2-induced glomerulonephritis was transferred to resistant Lewis (LEW) rats, irradiated and reconstituted with (LEW X BN)F1 hybrid immunocompetent cells. This glomerulonephritis was similar to that observed in Brown-Norway (BN) rats with a first stage characterized by anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies and a second stage with immune complex-type deposits in the glomerular tufts and in the small renal arteries.