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ArticleDrugs of the future2011

GAD65 autoantibodies and its role as biomarker of Type 1 diabetes and Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA).

Roberto Towns, Massimo Pietropaolo

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Article in Drugs of the future, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. The relationship between GAD65 autoantibody and the risk of T1DM onset.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roberto TownsLaboratory of Immunogenetics, The Brehm Center for Diabetes Research, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Massimo Pietropaolo
University of Michigan · US

Funding

IMPROVING PREDICTION OF IDDMR01DK053456 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HERMAN, MARK A, REDONDO, MARIA JOSE · 1999 to 2021
$9.5M
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ISLET CELL AUTOIMMUNITY IN NIDDMR01DK056200 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI PIETROPAOLO, MASSIMO T · 2001 to 2009
$3.5M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK053456NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK056200
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the hallmarks of autoimmune diabetes is the presence of adaptive responses directed to neuroendocrine proteins. One of these proteins is glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD). While GAD is widely distributed in neuroendocrine tissues, its specific significance in diabetes has paralleled the advances in understanding humoral and cellular immunity in Type 1 diabetes (T1D) and in a subset of Type 2 diabetes (T2D), going from the seminal discoveries of islet autoantibodies to the development and standardization of bioassays as diagnostic tools, to studies on the structure of GAD and its antigenic determinants. GAD65 autoantibodies can accurately predict T1D development in combination with other surrogate humoral biomarkers and they are considered the most sensitive and specific biomarker which identifies a subset of clinically diagnosed T2D termed Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA). We and others provided evidence indicating that GAD65 autoantibody detection should be part of the diagnostic assessment for clinically diagnosed T2DM mainly because it predicts the rate of progression to insulin requirement in patients affected by LADA. More recently GAD has been used as a "tolerogenic vaccine" to preserve beta cell function in autoimmune diabetes. While the results of Phase III clinical trials did not substantiate the earlier promise of Phase I and II trials, there are still many unanswered questions and approaches that need to be investigated in the applications of GAD in the therapy of T1D and LADA.

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PMID22869930
PMCPMC3411186
OpenAlexW2136400195

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