IFNG and autoimmune disease: Different behavioral patterns of these rat strains [30], higher capacity of the immune cells of DA rats to produce interleukin (IL)-17 and interferon γ (IFN-γ) [31,32] and the differences in the composition and the diversity of gut microbiota [33] were, to some extent, associated with the susceptibility and the resistance to the induction of autoimmune diseases in DA and AO rats, respectively.