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Role of defective apoptosis in type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.
Recent progress in hormone research - 1 Jan 2003
Hayashi Takuma, Faustman Denise L
Abstract excerpt
Lymphocyte development, selection, and education are strictly controlled to prevent autoimmunity, with potentially autoreactive cells being removed by apoptosis. Dysregulation of apoptosis is a central defect in diverse murine autoimmune diseases. In murine models of autoimmune lupus, for example, mutations in the death receptor Fas (CD95) or in its ligand, FasL (CD95L), have been identified and shown to render...
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