Th1 and Th2 CD4+ T cells in the pathogenesis of organ-specific autoimmune diseases

RS Liblau, SM Singer, HO McDevitt - Immunology today, 1995 - cell.com
CD4'T cells play a key role in regulating immune system function. When these regulatory
processes go awry, organ-specific autoimmune diseases may develop. Here, Roland Liblau …

[HTML][HTML] Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

R Tisch, H McDevitt - Cell, 1996 - cell.com
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is a multifactorial autoimmune disease for which
susceptibility is determined by environmental and genetic factors. Inheritance is polygenic …

High incidence of spontaneous autoimmune encephalomyelitis in immunodeficient anti-myelin basic protein T cell receptor transgenic mice

JJ Lafaille, K Nagashima, M Katsuki, S Tonegawa - Cell, 1994 - cell.com
We have generated TCR transgenic mice (T/R+) specific for myelin basic protein (MBP) and
crossed them to RAG-l-deficient mice to obtain mice (T/R-) that have T cells expressing the …

Genetic control of autoimmune diabetes in the NOD mouse.

LS Wicker, JA Todd, LB Peterson - Annual review of immunology, 1995 - europepmc.org
The nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse is a model of human autoimmune insulin-dependent
diabetes mellitus. The NOD mouse also serves as a model for studying complex polygenic …

MHC class II polymorphisms, autoreactive T-cells, and autoimmunity

S Tsai, P Santamaria - Frontiers in immunology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, also known as human leukocyte antigen
genes (HLA) in humans, are the prevailing contributors of genetic susceptibility to …

A Structural Framework for Deciphering the Link Between IAg7 and Autoimmune Diabetes

AL Corper, T Stratmann, V Apostolopoulos, CA Scott… - Science, 2000 - science.org
Susceptibility to murine and human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus correlates strongly
with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II IA or HLA-DQ alleles that lack an …

Tolerance to islet autoantigens in type 1 diabetes

JF Bach, L Chatenoud - Annual review of immunology, 2001 - annualreviews.org
Tolerance to β cell autoantigens represents a fragile equilibrium. Autoreactive T cells
specific to these autoantigens are present in most normal individuals but are kept under …

Production of interleukin 10 by islet cells accelerates immune-mediated destruction of beta cells in nonobese diabetic mice.

L Wogensen, MS Lee, N Sarvetnick - The Journal of experimental …, 1994 - rupress.org
The T helper type 2 (Th2) cell product interleukin 10 (IL-10) inhibits the proliferation and
function of Th1 lymphocytes and macrophages (M phi). The nonobese diabetic mouse strain …

A correlation between the relative predisposition of MHC class II alleles to type 1 diabetes and the structure of their proteins

F Cucca, R Lampis, M Congia, E Angius… - Human molecular …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
In human type 1 diabetes (T1D) and in its murine model, the major histocompatibility
complex (MHC) class II molecules, human leukocyte antigens (HLA)-DQ and-DR and their …

A mechanism for the major histocompatibility complex–linked resistance to autoimmunity

D Schmidt, J Verdaguer, N Averill… - The Journal of …, 1997 - rupress.org
Certain major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II haplotypes encode elements
providing either susceptibility or dominant resistance to the development of spontaneous …