Article
Immunopathology of diabetes in the RT6-depleted diabetes-resistant BB/Wor rat.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Oct 1990
Jiang Z, Handler E S, Rossini A A, Woda B A
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus appears to be an autoimmune disease that is characterized morphologically by insulitis, an inflammation of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans that results in the destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells. The RT6-depleted DR rat provides a good model for the in situ study of insulitis. The authors used the anti-RT6.1 monoclonal antibody to selectively deplete RT6 T cells...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
- Histocompatibility Antigens
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Inflammation
- Islets of Langerhans
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Macrophages
- Phenotype
- Rats
