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Mechanisms of Beta Cell Dysfunction Associated With Viral Infection.
Current diabetes reports - 1 Oct 2015
Petzold Antje, Solimena Michele, Knoch Klaus-Peter
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from genetic predisposition and environmental factors leading to the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells. Recently, a rapid increase in the incidence of childhood T1D has been observed worldwide; this is too fast to be explained by genetic factors alone, pointing to the spreading of environmental factors linked to the disease. Enteroviruses (EVs) are perhaps the most...
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