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IL-10 is necessary and sufficient for autoimmune diabetes in conjunction with NOD MHC homozygosity.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 1 Jun 1996
Lee M S, Mueller R, Wicker L S, Peterson L B, Sarvetnick N
Abstract excerpt
Contrary to expectations based on in vitro experiments, we previously found that pancreatic IL-10 did not inhibit autoimmune diabetes but accelerated it in an MHC-dependent manner. Therefore, the ability of IL-10 to overcome the absence of all non-MHC diabetes susceptibility (Idd) alleles was studied in transgenic mice expressing pancreatic IL-10 backcrossed to B10.H2g7 congenic mice, which have no Idd alleles...
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