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Low dose poly I:C prevents diabetes in the diabetes prone BB rat.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Aug 1998
Sobel D O, Goyal D, Ahvazi B, Yoon J W, Chung Y H, Bagg A, Harlan D M
Abstract excerpt
Poly I:C, an inducer of IFN-alpha and other cytokines, has been used to study the development of diabetes in both the BioBreeding (BB) diabetes prone rat and non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse animal models of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Surprisingly, poly I:C accelerates the disease in the BB rat while inhibiting it in the NOD mouse. Since cytokines can have dose related opposing effects on immune...
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