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Islet-Resident Dendritic Cells and Macrophages in Type 1 Diabetes: In Search of Bigfoot’s Print
12 Apr 2021
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The classical view of type 1 diabetes assumes that the autoimmune mediated targeting of insulin producing ß-cells is caused by an error of the immune system. Malfunction and stress of beta cells added the target tissue at the center of action. The innate immune system, and in particular islet-resident cells of the myeloid lineage, could function as a link between stressed ß-cells and activation and recognition by...
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