Therapy of experimental type 1 diabetes by isolated Sertoli cell xenografts alone

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 206, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2511-2526

  Fallarino, Francesca ^a   Luca, Giovanni ^a   Calvitti, Mario ^a   Mancuso, Francesca ^a   Nastruzzi, Claudio ^a   Fioretti, Maria C ^a   Grohmann, Ursula ^a   Becchetti, Ennio ^a   Burgevin, Anne ^b   Kratzer, Roland ^b,c   Van Endert, Peter ^b,c   Boon, Louis ^d   Puccetti, Paolo ^a   Calafiore, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d BIOCEROS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; BETA ACTIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOSE; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 16; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; NEUROGENIN 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRYPTOPHAN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR ROR GAMMA; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR ROR-GAMMA; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX21; T-BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX21; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERM CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; MICROCAPSULE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SERTOLI CELL; SWINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; XENOGRAFT; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INDOLEAMINE-PYRROLE 2,3,-DIOXYGENASE; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; SERTOLI CELLS; SUS SCROFA; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 70449707629     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20090134     Document Type: Article

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