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Evidence of a functional role for mast cells in the development of type 1 diabetes mellitus in the BioBreeding rat.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Nov 2006
Geoffrey Rhonda, Jia Shuang, Kwitek Anne E, Woodliff Jeffrey, Ghosh Soumitra, Lernmark Ake, Wang Xujing, Hessner Martin J
Abstract excerpt
Human type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) arises through autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells and is modeled in many respects by the lymphopenic and spontaneously diabetic BioBreeding (BB) DRlyp/lyp rat. Previously, preonset expression profiling of whole DRlyp/lyp pancreatic lymph nodes (PLN) revealed innate immune activity, specifically that of mast cells and eosinophils. Furthermore, we observed that...
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