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Type 1 diabetes in BioBreeding rats is critically linked to an imbalance between Th17 and regulatory T cells and an altered TCR repertoire.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Aug 2010
van den Brandt Jens, Fischer Henrike J, Walter Lutz, Hünig Thomas, Klöting Ingrid, Reichardt Holger M
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Diabetes-prone BioBreeding (DP-BB) rats spontaneously develop type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) on grounds of their MHC haplotype RT1(u) and a point mutation in the Gimap5 gene. In this study, we report that DP-BB rats exhibit an increasingly severe imbalance, in particular between Th17 and regulat...
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