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Dietary proteins as environmental modifiers of type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Annual review of nutrition - 1 Jan 2006
Lefebvre David E, Powell Karen L, Strom Alexander, Scott Fraser W
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the patient's immune system destroys the insulin-secreting beta-cells in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans. A majority of cases is thought to occur as a result of gene-environment interactions. The identity of the environmental factors remains unknown mainly because of the difficulty in linking past exposures with later disease development. Overall, the data...
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