Article
MHC-linked protection from diabetes dissociated from clonal deletion of T cells.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 20 Jul 1990
Böhme J, Schuhbaur B, Kanagawa O, Benoist C, Mathis D
Abstract excerpt
The I-E molecule of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) can prevent the spontaneous development of diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice. The mechanism of this protection has been investigated by breeding wild-type and promoter-mutated E kappa alpha transgenes onto the NOD genetic background. Animals carrying the various mutated transgenes expressed I-E on different subsets of immunocompetent cells, and...
Topics
- Animals
- Clone Cells
- Crosses, Genetic
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
- Genes, MHC Class II
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Islets of Langerhans
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Mice, Transgenic
