Article
Monocyte function in IDDM patients and healthy individuals.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Sept 1990
Mølvig J, Pociot F, Baek L, Worsaae H, Dall Wogensen L, Christensen P, Staub-Nielsen L, Mandrup-Poulsen T, Manogue K, Nerup J
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) and tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) may be pathogenetically important in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), which is associated with genes of the HLA region. Since a regulatory role of HLA region genes on monokine production may exist, we looked for an association between the monokine and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) responses of monocytes (Mo) from 20 healthy males...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alleles
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Dinoprostone
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- HLA-DR Antigens
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Interferons
- Interleukin-1
