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T-cell responses to enterovirus antigens in children with type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes - 1 Aug 2000
Juhela S, Hyöty H, Roivainen M, Härkönen T, Putto-Laurila A, Simell O, Ilonen J
Abstract excerpt
Enterovirus infections, implicated in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes in a number of studies, may precipitate the symptoms of clinical diabetes and play a role in the initiation of the beta-cell damaging process. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether cellular immune responses to enterovirus antigens are abnormal in children with type 1 diabetes. Lymphocyte proliferation responses to enterovirus...
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