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Processing and presentation of the islet autoantigen GAD by vascular endothelial cells promotes transmigration of autoreactive T-cells.
Diabetes - 1 Mar 2003
Greening James E, Tree Timothy I M, Kotowicz Karolena T, van Halteren Astrid G, Roep Bart O, Klein Nigel J, Peakman Mark
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes is characterized by T-cell infiltration of the islets of Langerhans and abundant HLA class II molecule expression on islet endothelial cells (ECs). The specificity of infiltrating T-cells for islet autoantigens has been amply demonstrated in animal models, and is implicit in human diabetes, but the processes regulating endothelial transmigration of islet autoantigen-specific T-cells into islets...
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