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Bridging mice to men: using HLA transgenic mice to enhance the future prediction and prevention of autoimmune type 1 diabetes in humans.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2010
Serreze David V, Niens Marijke, Kulik John, Dilorenzo Teresa P
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Similar to the vast majority of cases in humans, the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the NOD mouse model is due to T-cell mediated autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. Particular major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotypes (designated HLA in humans and H2 in mice) provide the primary genetic risk factor for T1D development. It has long been appreciated that within the...
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