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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2010

A short pulse of IL-4 delivered by DCs electroporated with modified mRNA can both prevent and treat autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice.

Rémi J Creusot, Pearl Chang, Don G Healey, Irina Y Tcherepanova, Charles A Nicolette, C Garrison Fathman

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rémi J CreusotDivision of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5166, USA.
Pearl Chang
Don G Healey
Irina Y Tcherepanova
Charles A Nicolette
C Garrison Fathman
Argos Therapeutics (United States) · USStanford University · US

Funding

Immunoregulation of AutoimmunityU01DK078123 · NIDDK · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FATHMAN, CHARLES GARRISON · 2006 to 2011
$1.9M
NIDDK NIH HHS DK078123NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK078123
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DCs) are cells of the immune system that have been used as a tool to boost, modulate, or dampen immune responses. In the context of autoimmunity, DCs can be modified to express immunoregulatory products encoded by transgenes, and used therapeutically in adoptive cellular therapy. DCs that were lentivirally transduced (lt) to express interleukin 4 (IL-4) can significantly delay or prevent the onset of autoimmune diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice. However, modifying cells using viral vectors carries the dual risk of oncogenicity or immunogenicity. This study demonstrates that NOD DCs, electroporated with "translationally enhanced" IL-4 mRNA (eDC/IL-4), can be equally efficient therapeutically, despite the reduced amount and shorter duration of IL-4 secretion. Moreover, a single injection of eDC/IL-4 in NOD mice shortly after the onset of hyperglycemia was able to maintain stable glycemia for up to several months in a significant fraction of treated mice. Treatment with eDC/IL-4 boosted regulatory T (Tregs) cell functions and modulated T helper responses to reduce pathogenicity. Thus, treatment with DCs, electroporated with modified IL-4 mRNA to express IL-4 for up to 24 hours, constitutes a viable cellular therapy approach for the regulation of autoimmune diabetes, as a preferred alternative to the use of viral vectors.

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AnimalsDendritic CellsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1ElectroporationInterleukin-4MiceMice, Inbred NODRNA, MessengerInterleukin-4RNA, Messenger

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PMID20628358
PMCPMC2997578
OpenAlexW2029639421

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