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Impaired post-thymic development of regulatory CD4+25+ T cells contributes to diabetes pathogenesis in BB rats.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Apr 2005
Poussier Philippe, Ning Terri, Murphy Trista, Dabrowski Dominika, Ramanathan Sheela
Abstract excerpt
One of the BB rat diabetes (diabetes mellitus (DM)) susceptibility genes is an Ian5 mutation resulting in premature apoptosis of naive T cells. Impaired differentiation of regulatory T cells has been suggested as one possible mechanism through which this mutation contributes to antipancreatic autoimmunity. Using Ian5 congenic inbred rats (wild-type (non-lyp BB) and mutated (BB)), we assessed the development of BB...
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