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Differential impact of T cell repertoire diversity in diabetes-prone or -resistant IL-10 transgenic mice.
Cellular immunology - 1 May 1999
Balasa B, Lee J, Sarvetnick N
Abstract excerpt
Expression of IL-10 transgene (tg) in pancreatic beta cells failed to induce autoimmune insulitis and diabetes in (BALB/c x NOD)F1 mice. However, IL-10-expressing tg littermates from backcrosses (N2 and N3) with NOD mice became diabetic at 5 to 10 weeks of age in an MHC-dependent manner. In this study, we tested the possibility that enhancement in frequency of islet antigen (Ag)-specific T cells overrides the...
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