ReviewDiabetologia2003
The role of T-cells in the pathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes: from cause to cure.
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138 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Understanding the Impact of Perfluorinated Compounds on Cardiovascular Diseases and Their Risk Factors: A Meta-Analysis Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- The Emerging Epigenetic Role of CD8+T Cells in Autoimmune Diseases: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Pooled it
- Low-dose otelixizumab anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody DEFEND-1 study: results of the randomized phase III study in recent-onset human type 1 diabetes.Diabetes care · 2014Trial
- Plasmid-encoded proinsulin preserves C-peptide while specifically reducing proinsulin-specific CD8⁺ T cells in type 1 diabetes.Science translational medicine · 2013Trial
- Type 1 diabetes-associated IL2RA variation lowers IL-2 signaling and contributes to diminished CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cell function.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2012Trial
- Immunological efficacy of heat shock protein 60 peptide DiaPep277 therapy in clinical type I diabetes.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2008Trial
- Selective unresponsiveness to beta cell autoantigens after induction immunosuppression in pancreas transplantation with anti-interleukin-2 receptor antibody versus anti-thymocyte globulin.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2007Trial
- Taming autoimmunity: Alpha-1 antitrypsin overexpressing mesenchymal stromal cells promote regulatory T cell crosstalk to reverse diabetes.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026Article
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- Extracellular vesicles inherit lactate from aggregated MSCs to alleviate type 1 diabetes mellitus via HJournal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
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- Transcending risk factors: the implications of redefining diabetes as an immunometabolic disease for infectious disease studies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- The therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cells-derived extracellular vesicles/exosomes on the diabetes: a systematic review study.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Review
- Biochemical study on microRNAs (miR-410, miR-133 and miR-582) in Egyptian type 1 diabetic patients.BMC endocrine disorders · 2025Article
- Proximity extension assay inflammatory profiling cannot distinguish the presence of residual C-peptide in patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes.Acta diabetologica · 2025Article
- Blood methylome signatures in children exposed to maternal type 1 diabetes are linked to protection against islet autoimmunity.Nature metabolism · 2025Article
- Multiple low dose streptozotocin-induced diabetes as a model for studying autoimmune diabetes in humans.Animal models and experimental medicine · 2025Review
- T cell and autoantibody recognition of nucleus-associated islet autoantigens in individuals with type 1 diabetes.Diabetologia · 2025Article
- Immune cell-adipose tissue crosstalk in metabolic diseases with a focus on type 1 diabetes.Diabetologia · 2025Review
- Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4 Regulates the Antigen-Presenting Function of Dendritic Cells Resulting in T Cell Priming in Streptozotocin-Induced Type 1 Diabetes Mice.Journal of diabetes · 2025Article
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Abstract
Type 1 diabetes mellitus results from a T-cell mediated autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta cells in genetically predisposed individuals. The knowledge of the immunopathogenesis has increased enormously in the last two decades. The contribution of T-cells in the pathogenesis is beyond doubt. Therapies directed against T-cells have been shown to halt the disease process and prevent recurrent beta-cell destruction after islet transplantation. Less is known about the nature and function of these T-cells, the cause of the loss of tolerance to islet autoantigens, why the immune system apparently fails to suppress autoreactivity, and whether (or which) autoantigen(s) are critically involved in the initiation or progression of the disease. The contribution of dendritic cells in directing the immune response is clear, while the contribution of B-cells and autoantibodies is subject to reconsideration. Autoreactive T-cells have proven to be valuable tools to study pathogenic or diabetes-related processes. Measuring T-cell autoreactivity has also provided critical information to determine the fate of islet allografts transplanted to Type 1 diabetic patients. Cellular autoimmunity is a difficult study subject, but it has been a worthwhile quest to unravel the role of T-cells in the pathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes. The challenge for the future is to determine which factors contribute to the loss of tolerance to beta-cell antigens, and to define what measures T-cells can provide to suppress autoreactivity, since it is becoming increasingly evident that T-cells provide a two-edged sword: some T-cells could be pathogenic, but others can regulate the disease process and thus form new targets for immunointervention.
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