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The long and winding road to understanding and conquering type 1 diabetes.
Immunity - 23 Apr 2010
Santamaria Pere
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune diseases with high population prevalence such as type 1 diabetes (T1D) develop as a result of ill-defined interactions between putative environmental triggers and a constellation of genetic elements scattered throughout the genome. In T1D, these interactions somehow trigger a loss of tolerance to pancreatic beta cells, manifested in the form of a chronic autoimmune response that mobilizes virtually...
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