Article
Prevention of insulitis and diabetes onset by treatment with complete Freund's adjuvant in NOD mice.
Diabetes - 1 Jun 1991
McInerney M F, Pek S B, Thomas D W
Abstract excerpt
In studies of immune cell defects in autoimmune diabetes mellitus, we observed that complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) prevented the onset of diabetes when injected into 8- to 10-wk-old prediabetic nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice. The prevalence of the onset of diabetes in the CFA-injected versus uninjected NOD mice was 2 of 81 (2.5%) vs. 231 of 379 (61%) among females and 2 of 44 (4.5%) vs. 83 of 336 (25%) among...
Topics
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Concanavalin A
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
- Freund's Adjuvant
- Islets of Langerhans
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Pancreatic Diseases
- Phenotype
