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Type 1 diabetes: etiology, immunology, and therapeutic strategies.
Physiological reviews - 1 Jan 2011
van Belle Tom L, Coppieters Ken T, von Herrath Matthias G
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disease in which destruction or damaging of the beta-cells in the islets of Langerhans results in insulin deficiency and hyperglycemia. We only know for sure that autoimmunity is the predominant effector mechanism of T1D, but may not be its primary cause. T1D precipitates in genetically susceptible individuals, very likely as a result of an environmental trigger....
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