Insulin expression levels in the thymus modulate insulin-specific autoreactive T-cell tolerance: The mechanism by which the IDDM2 locus may predispose to diabetes

Diabetes

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1383-1390

  Chentoufi, Aziz Alami ^a   Polychronakos, Constantin ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CYCLOPHILIN; DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA; OVALBUMIN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; PROINSULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0036315824     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.5.1383     Document Type: Article

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