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mt-Nd2 Allele of the ALR/Lt mouse confers resistance against both chemically induced and autoimmune diabetes.
Diabetologia - 1 Feb 2005
Mathews C E, Leiter E H, Spirina O, Bykhovskaya Y, Gusdon A M, Ringquist S, Fischel-Ghodsian N
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: ALR/Lt, a mouse strain with strong resistance to type 1 diabetes, is closely related to autoimmune type 1 diabetes-prone NOD/Lt mice. ALR pancreatic beta cells are resistant to the beta cell toxin alloxan, combinations of cytotoxic cytokines, and diabetogenic NOD T-cell lines. Reciprocal F1 hybrids between either ALR and NOD or ALR and NON/Lt, showed that alloxan resistance was transmitted to F1...
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