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Perturbed homeostasis of peripheral T cells elicits decreased susceptibility to anti-CD3-induced apoptosis in prediabetic nonobese diabetic mice.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Oct 2004
Yang Wen, Hussain Shabbir, Mi Qing-Sheng, Santamaria Pere, Delovitch Terry L
Abstract excerpt
Activation-induced cell death (AICD) plays a key role in the homeostasis of the immune system. Autoreactive T cells are eliminated through AICD both from the thymus and periphery. In this study, we show that NOD peripheral T cells, especially CD8(+) T cells, display a decreased susceptibility to anti-CD3-induced AICD in vivo compared with T cells from diabetes-resistant B6, nonobese diabetes-resistant, and...
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