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ArticleIslets2014

From immunobiology to β-cell biology: the changing perspective on type 1 diabetes.

Aarthi Maganti, Carmella Evans-Molina, Raghavendra Mirmira

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Article in Islets, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Aarthi Magantia Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology; Indiana University School of Medicine; Indianapolis, IN USA.
Carmella Evans-Molina
Raghavendra Mirmira
Indiana University · USIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis · USIndiana University School of Medicine

Funding

Transcriptional Mechanisms Governing Beta Cell DifferentiationR01DK060581 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI Raghavendra G Mirmira · 2002 to 2026
$8.5M
Mechanisms of Beta Cell Function in Health and DiseaseR01DK093954 · NIDDK · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI EVANS-MOLINA, CARMELLA · 2011 to 2019
$3.5M
Chromatin Cofactors in Islet Development and FunctionR01DK083583 · NIDDK · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI MIRMIRA, RAGHAVENDRA G · 2010 to 2013
$1.2M
Regulation of Calcium Homeostasis in the Pancreatic Beta CellI01BX001733 · VA · RLR VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI Carmella Evans-Molina · 2013 to 2026
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BLRD VA I01 BX001733NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK060581NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK083583NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK093954
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is characterized by the immune mediated destruction of β cells. Clinical studies have focused on drug therapies to modulate autoimmunity, yet none of these interventions has resulted in durable preservation of β-cell function. These findings raise the possibility that initiating or propagating events outside of the immune system should be considered in future efforts to prevent or reverse T1D. An emerging concept suggests that defects inherent to the β cell may trigger autoimmunity. A study by Engin et al. in type 1 diabetic NOD mice suggests that excessive β-cell endoplasmic reticulum stress arising from environmental insults results in abnormal protein synthesis, folding, and/or processing. Administration of the chemical protein folding chaperone TUDCA resulted in recovery of β-cell endoplasmic reticulum function and a diminished incidence of diabetes in NOD mice. We propose here that these data and others support a model whereby an inadequate or defective β-cell endoplasmic reticulum response results in the release of β-cell antigens and neoantigens that initiate autoimmunity. Pharmacologic therapies that either mitigate these early β-cell stressors or enhance the ability of β cells to cope with such stressors may prove to be effective in the prevention or treatment of T1D.

Indexed as

Unfolded Protein ResponseAnimalsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1FemaleHumansIslets of LangerhansMaleATF6autoimmunityER stressEtiologyImmunology/autoimmunity/immune mechanismsIslet cell biology/physiologyPharmacologic agentssXBP1type 1 diabetesunfolded protein responseβ cell

Identifiers

PMID25483958
PMCPMC4594197
OpenAlexW2075003804

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