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Expression of diabetes-associated genes by dendritic cells and CD4 T cells drives the loss of tolerance in nonobese diabetic mice.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Aug 2009
Hamilton-Williams Emma E, Martinez Xavier, Clark Jan, Howlett Sarah, Hunter Kara M, Rainbow Daniel B, Wen Li, Shlomchik Mark J, Katz Jonathan D, Beilhack Georg F, Wicker Linda S, Sherman Linda A
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In humans and NOD mice, defects in immune tolerance result in the spontaneous development of type-1-diabetes. Recent studies have ascribed a breakdown in tolerance to dysfunction in regulatory T cells that is secondary to reduced IL-2 production by T cells having the NOD diabetes susceptibility region insulin-dependent diabetes 3 (Idd3). In this study, we demonstrate a peripheral tolerance defect in the dendritic...
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