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Mine K, Nagafuchi S, Hatano S, Tanaka K, Mori H, Takahashi H, Anzai K, Yoshikai Y. Impaired upregulation of Stat2 gene restrictive to pancreatic β-cells is responsible for virus-induced diabetes in DBA/2 mice. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 521:853-860. [PMID: 31708097 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.10.193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Viral infection is a putative causal factor for the development of type 1 diabetes, but the exact pathogenic mechanism of virus-induced diabetes (VID) remains unclear. Here, to identify the critical factors that regulate VID, we analyzed encephalomyocarditis D (EMC-D) VID-sensitive DBA/2 mice in comparison with resistant B6 mice. EMC-D virus-induced cell death occurred more frequently in DBA/2 β-cells than in B6 β-cells with 100U/ml IFN-β priming in vitro. We therefore purified β-cells using flow cytometry from mice two days after EMC-D virus infection and subjected them to microarray analysis. As a results, innate immune response pathway was found to be enriched in B6 β-cells. The signal transducer and activator of transcription 2 (Stat2) gene interacted with genes in the pathway. Stat2 gene expression levels were lower in DBA/2 mice than in B6 mice, restrictive to β-cells. Moreover, administration of IFN-β failed to upregulate Stat2 gene in DBA/2 β-cells than in those of B6 in vivo. The viral titer significantly increased only in the DBA/2 pancreas. Thus, these provided data suggest that impaired upregulation of Stat2 gene restrictive to β-cells at the early stage of infection is responsible for VID development in DBA/2 mice.
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- Keiichiro Mine
- Division of Host Defense, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan; Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, 5-1-1, Nabeshima, Saga, 849-8501, Japan.
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- Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, 5-1-1, Nabeshima, Saga, 849-8501, Japan.
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- Division of Host Defense, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, 5-1-1, Nabeshima, Saga, 849-8501, Japan
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- Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, 5-1-1, Nabeshima, Saga, 849-8501, Japan
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- Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, 5-1-1, Nabeshima, Saga, 849-8501, Japan
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- Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, 5-1-1, Nabeshima, Saga, 849-8501, Japan
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- Division of Host Defense, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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Capua I, Mercalli A, Romero-Tejeda A, Pizzuto MS, Kasloff S, Sordi V, Marzinotto I, Lampasona V, Vicenzi E, De Battisti C, Bonfanti R, Rigamonti A, Terregino C, Doglioni C, Cattoli G, Piemonti L. Study of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus as a Possible Causative Agent of Diabetes. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2018; 103:4343-4356. [PMID: 30203067 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2018-00862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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CONTEXT Recent studies have suggested that influenza A virus (IAV) might be involved in the etiology of diabetes. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS To address this question, we tested the ability of H1N1 pandemic IAV to infect, replicate, and damage human β cells/pancreatic islets in vitro and induce pancreatic damage and/or glucose metabolism alterations in chemical and autoimmune models of β cell damage in vivo. Moreover, we looked for direct and/or indirect evidence of correlation between IAV infection and autoimmunity/diabetes in humans. RESULTS Human H1N1 A/California/2009-derived viruses infected human pancreatic islets in vitro, inducing a proinflammatory response associated with substantial increases of CXCL9 and CXCL10 release. In vivo, infected mice showed a clear susceptibility to the virus, with its localization also found in extrapulmonary organs, including the pancreas. Infection was able to induce mild modifications of glycemia in C57B6 mice after chemical damage of islets but did not modulate the autoimmune damage of islets in NOD mice. One of 69 nasopharyngeal swabs collected from patients at the onset of type 1 diabetes yielded positive results for IAV. Pancreas sections from 17 organ donors available from the Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors With Diabetes showed the persistence of CXCL10-positive cells in islet autoimmunity-positive subjects; however, extremely rare cells stained for viral RNA and not preferentially in autoimmune subjects. CONCLUSION Influenza H1N1 pdm strains are able to infect and replicate in mammalian pancreatic cells both in vitro and in vivo but did not cause any functional impairment consistent with diabetes.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Animals
- Blood Glucose
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Chemokine CXCL10/immunology
- Chemokine CXCL10/metabolism
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/blood
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/virology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/blood
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/virology
- Dogs
- Female
- Humans
- Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/genetics
- Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/immunology
- Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/isolation & purification
- Influenza, Human/epidemiology
- Influenza, Human/immunology
- Influenza, Human/virology
- Insulin-Secreting Cells/immunology
- Insulin-Secreting Cells/metabolism
- Insulin-Secreting Cells/virology
- Madin Darby Canine Kidney Cells
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Pandemics
- Primary Cell Culture
- RNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- Young Adult
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- Ilaria Capua
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Padua, Italy
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- San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Padua, Italy
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- San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Viral Pathogens and Biosafety Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Padua, Italy
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- San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Padua, Italy
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- Unit of Pathology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Padua, Italy
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- San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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Pagni PP, Bresson D, Rodriguez-Calvo T, Bel Hani A, Manenkova Y, Amirian N, Blaszczak A, Faton S, Sachithanantham S, von Herrath MG. Combination therapy with an anti-IL-1β antibody and GAD65 DNA vaccine can reverse recent-onset diabetes in the RIP-GP mouse model. Diabetes 2014; 63:2015-25. [PMID: 24520125 PMCID: PMC4030110 DOI: 10.2337/db13-1257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Type 1 diabetes is thought to be an autoimmune condition in which self-reactive T cells attack insulin-secreting pancreatic β-cells. As a proinflammatory cytokine produced by β-cells or macrophages, interleukin-1β (IL-1β) represents a potential therapeutic target in diabetes. We reasoned IL-1β blockade could be combined with islet antigen-specific approaches involving GAD of 65 kDa (GAD65)-expressing plasmids, as previously shown in combination therapies (CTs) with anti-CD3. Thus, we investigated whether anti-IL-1β antibody alone or combined with GAD65 vaccine could reverse diabetes development in a virus-induced mouse model. Given alone, anti-IL-1β had no effect on diabetes, while GAD65 plasmid resulted in 33% disease reversal after a 5-week observation. However, CTs cured 53% of animals and prevented worsening of glycemic control in nonprotected individuals for up to 12 weeks. While the GAD65 vaccine arm of the CT was associated with increased forkhead box p3(+) regulatory T-cell frequency in pancreatic lymph nodes, islet infiltration by CD11b(+/high) cells was less frequent upon CT, and its extent correlated with treatment success or failure. Altogether, our CTs provided prolonged improvement of clinical and immunological features. Despite unsuccessful clinical trials using anti-IL-1β monotherapy, these data hold promise for treatment of type 1 diabetic patients with IL-1β blockade combined with antigen-specific vaccines.
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- Philippe P Pagni
- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
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Coppieters KT, Amirian N, Pagni PP, Baca Jones C, Wiberg A, Lasch S, Hintermann E, Christen U, von Herrath MG. Functional redundancy of CXCR3/CXCL10 signaling in the recruitment of diabetogenic cytotoxic T lymphocytes to pancreatic islets in a virally induced autoimmune diabetes model. Diabetes 2013; 62:2492-9. [PMID: 23434930 PMCID: PMC3712024 DOI: 10.2337/db12-1370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) constitute a major effector population in pancreatic islets from patients suffering from type 1 diabetes (T1D) and thus represent attractive targets for intervention. Some studies have suggested that blocking the interaction between the chemokine CXCL10 and its receptor CXCR3 on activated CTLs potently inhibits their recruitment and prevents β-cell death. Since recent studies on human pancreata from T1D patients have indicated that both ligand and receptor are abundantly present, we reevaluated whether their interaction constitutes a pivotal node within the chemokine network associated with T1D. Our present data in a viral mouse model challenge the notion that specific blockade of the CXCL10/CXCR3 chemokine axis halts T1D onset and progression.
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- Ken T. Coppieters
- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California
- Type 1 Diabetes R&D Center, Novo Nordisk Inc., Seattle, Washington
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California
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- Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/Center for Drug Research, Development and Safety, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/Center for Drug Research, Development and Safety, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Pharmazentrum Frankfurt/Center for Drug Research, Development and Safety, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Type 1 Diabetes Center, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California
- Type 1 Diabetes R&D Center, Novo Nordisk Inc., Seattle, Washington
- Corresponding author: Matthias G. von Herrath,
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Hara N, Alkanani AK, Ir D, Robertson CE, Wagner BD, Frank DN, Zipris D. The role of the intestinal microbiota in type 1 diabetes. Clin Immunol 2012; 146:112-9. [PMID: 23314185 DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2012.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2012] [Revised: 11/30/2012] [Accepted: 12/01/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The digestive tract hosts trillions of bacteria that interact with the immune system and can influence the balance between pro-inflammatory and regulatory immune responses. Recent studies suggest that alterations in the composition of the intestinal microbiota may be linked with the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Data from the biobreeding diabetes prone (BBDP) and the LEW1.WR1 models of T1D support the hypothesis that intestinal bacteria may be involved in early disease mechanisms. The data indicate that cross-talk between the gut microbiota and the innate immune system may be involved in islet destruction. Whether a causal link between intestinal microbiota and T1D exists, the identity of the bacteria and the mechanism whereby they promote the disease remain to be examined. A better understanding of the interplay between microbes and innate immune pathways in early disease stages holds promise for the design of immune interventions and disease prevention in genetically susceptible individuals.
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- Naoko Hara
- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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Bone RN, Icyuz M, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Cui W, Wang H, Peng JB, Matthews QL, Siegal GP, Wu H. Gene transfer of active Akt1 by an infectivity-enhanced adenovirus impacts β-cell survival and proliferation differentially in vitro and in vivo. Islets 2012; 4. [PMID: 23183538 PMCID: PMC3605165 DOI: 10.4161/isl.22721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Type 1 Diabetes is characterized by an absolute insulin deficiency due to the autoimmune destruction of insulin producing β-cells in the pancreatic islets. Akt1/Protein Kinase B is the direct downstream target of PI3 Kinase activation, and has shown potent anti-apoptotic and proliferation-inducing activities. This study was designed to explore whether gene transfer of constitutively active Akt1 (CA-Akt1) would promote β-cell survival and proliferation, thus be protective against experimental diabetes. In the study, a fiber-modified infectivity-enhanced adenoviral vector, Ad5RGDpK7, was used to deliver rat insulin promoter (RIP)-driven CA-Akt1 into β-cells. Our data showed this vector efficiently delivered CA-Akt1 into freshly isolated pancreatic islets, and promoted islet cell survival and β-cell proliferation in vitro. The therapeutic effect of the vector in vivo was assessed using streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes mice. Two means of vector administration were explored: intravenous and intra-bile ductal injections. While direct vector administration into pancreas via bile-ductal injection resulted in local adverse effect, intravenous injection of the vectors offered therapeutic benefits. Further analysis suggests systemic vector administration caused endogenous Akt expression and activation in islets, which may be responsible, at least in part, for the protective effect of the infectivity-enhanced CA-Akt1 gene delivery vector. Taken together, our data suggest CA-Akt1 is effective in promoting β-cell survival and proliferation in vitro, but direct in vivo use is compromised by the efficacy of transgene delivery into β-cells. Nonetheless, the vector evoked the expression and activation of endogenous Akt in the islets, thus offering beneficial bystander effect against STZ-induced diabetes.
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- Robert N. Bone
- Department of Pathology; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL USA
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- Department of Medicine; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL USA
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- Department of Medicine; Section of Endocrinology; Tulane University; New Orleans, LA USA
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- Department of Medicine; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL USA
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- Department of Surgery; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL USA
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- Department of Surgery; Medical University of South Carolina; Charleston, SC USA
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- Department of Medicine; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL USA
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- Department of Medicine; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL USA
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- Department of Pathology; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL USA
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- Department of Medicine; Section of Endocrinology; Tulane University; New Orleans, LA USA
- Correspondence to: Hongju Wu,
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Niklasson B, Hultman T, Kallies R, Niedrig M, Nilsson R, Berggren PO, Juntti-Berggren L, Efendic S, Lernmark A, Klitz W. The BioBreeding rat diabetes model is infected with Ljungan virus. Diabetologia 2007; 50:1559-60. [PMID: 17406852 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-007-0659-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2007] [Accepted: 02/28/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nangle MR, Cotter MA, Cameron NE. Alteration of aortic function from streptozotocin-diabetic rats with Kilham’s virus is associated with inducible nitric oxide synthase. Vet J 2006; 172:455-9. [PMID: 16249104 DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2005.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/04/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Kilham's rat virus (KRV) is a parvovirus commonly known to affect laboratory rats. Qualitative immunohistochemical analysis revealed that aorta isolated from KRV-infected streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic adult rats expressed markedly greater levels of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) than aorta from KRV-infected controls. In contrast with the prevailing literature, nitric oxide-mediated endothelium-dependent relaxation to acetylcholine was not blunted by STZ-diabetes, but was comparable to relaxations of aorta from controls. However, with increasing ex vivo duration, a decreased response to acetylcholine was observed in the STZ-diabetic aorta. In addition, whereas contraction responses to phenylephrine were not significantly altered over time in control tissue, aorta from STZ-diabetic rats developed increased tensions. The data suggest that increased iNOS-derived nitric oxide masks expected acetylcholine-mediated relaxation deficits as a result of KRV-infection, and that the deficit is unmasked by iNOS turnover ex vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Aorta, Thoracic/enzymology
- Aorta, Thoracic/immunology
- Aorta, Thoracic/physiopathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/enzymology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/physiopathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/virology
- Endothelium, Vascular/enzymology
- Endothelium, Vascular/immunology
- Endothelium, Vascular/physiology
- In Vitro Techniques
- Male
- Muscle Relaxation/physiology
- Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II/physiology
- Parvoviridae Infections/enzymology
- Parvoviridae Infections/immunology
- Parvoviridae Infections/physiopathology
- Parvovirus/physiology
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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- Matthew R Nangle
- Pain Management Research Institute, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia.
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Zhu Q, Chang H, Chen Y, Fang F, Xue C, Zhang F, Qiu M, Wang H, Wang B, Chen Z. Protection of inactivated influenza virus vaccine against lethal influenza virus infection in diabetic mice. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 329:87-94. [PMID: 15721277 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.01.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Influenza virus infection frequently causes complications and some excess mortality in the patients with diabetes. Vaccination is an effective measure to prevent influenza virus infection. In this paper, antibody response and protection against influenza virus infection induced by vaccination were studied in mouse model of diabetes. Healthy and diabetic BALB/c mice were immunized once or twice with inactivated influenza virus vaccine at various dosages. Four weeks after the first immunization or 1 week after the second immunization, the mice were challenged with influenza virus at a lethal dose. The result showed that the antibody responses in diabetic mice were inhibited. Immunization once with high dose or twice with low dose of vaccine provided full protection against lethal influenza virus challenge in diabetic mice, however, in healthy mice, immunization only once with low dose provided a full protection.
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- Qiang Zhu
- College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081 Hunan, People's Republic of China
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Zipris D, Lien E, Xie JX, Greiner DL, Mordes JP, Rossini AA. TLR activation synergizes with Kilham rat virus infection to induce diabetes in BBDR rats. J Immunol 2005; 174:131-42. [PMID: 15611235 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.1.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Virus infection is hypothesized to be an important environmental "trigger" of type 1 diabetes in humans. We used the BBDR rat model to investigate the relationship between viral infection and autoimmune diabetes. BBDR rats are diabetes-free in viral Ab-free housing, but the disease develops in approximately 30% of BBDR rats infected with Kilham rat virus (KRV) through a process that does not involve infection of pancreatic beta cells. Pretreatment with polyinosinic-polycytidylic (poly(I:C)), a ligand of TLR3, acts synergistically to induce diabetes in 100% of KRV-infected rats. The mechanisms by which KRV induces diabetes and TLR3 ligation facilitates this process are not clear. In this study, we demonstrate that activation of the innate immune system plays a crucial role in diabetes induction. We report that multiple TLR agonists synergize with KRV infection to induce diabetes in BBDR rats, as do heat-killed Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus (natural TLR agonists). KRV infection increases serum IL-12 p40 in a strain-specific manner, and increases IL-12 p40, IFN-gamma-inducible protein-10, and IFN-gamma mRNA transcript levels, particularly in the pancreatic lymph nodes of BBDR rats. Infection with vaccinia virus or H-1 parvovirus induced less stimulation of the innate immune system and failed to induce diabetes in BBDR rats. Our results suggest that the degree to which the innate immune system is activated by TLRs is important for expression of virus-induced diabetes in genetically susceptible hosts.
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- Danny Zipris
- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Kuchmerovskaia TM, Karpov AV, Donchenko GV. [Viruses as the etiological factor of type 1 diabetes. Animal models]. Ukr Biokhim Zh (1999) 2005; 77:32-40. [PMID: 16335266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Type 1 diabetes (TID) results from the destruction of pancreatic beta-cells. In spite of genetic pre-disposition, being the major component for the development of this type of diabetes, nongenetic factors also play an important role in the disease development. Among these factors viruses are implicated in the pathogenesis of TID. Basing on the literature data we have attempted to elucidate possible role of viruses in TID pathogenesis. Viruses may be involved in the TID pathogenesis in at least two distinct mechanisms. Firstly, viruses may trigger beta-cell-specific autoimmunity with or without direct infection of beta-cells. Secondly, viruses may directly infect and destroy beta-cells resulting in TID. Moreover viruses not only cause diabetes, but also may prevent from the disease in animals susceptible to diabetes. Further studies are necessary to understand the mechanisms of the pathogenesis of human virus-induced TID.
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Horwitz MS, Ilic A, Fine C, Rodriguez E, Sarvetnick N. Coxsackievirus-mediated hyperglycemia is enhanced by reinfection and this occurs independent of T cells. Virology 2003; 314:510-20. [PMID: 14554080 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6822(03)00462-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The induction of autoimmunity by viruses has been hypothesized to occur by a number of mechanisms. Coxsackievirus B4 (CB4) induces hyperglycemia in SJL mice resembling diabetes in humans. While virus is effectively cleared within 2 weeks, hyperglycemia does not appear until about 8-12 weeks postinfection at a time when replicative virus is no longer detectable. In SJL mice, reinfection with CB4 enhanced the development of hyperglycemia. As predicted, the immune system responded more rapidly to the second infection and virus was cleared more swiftly. However, while infiltrating T cells were found within the pancreas, depletion of the CD4 T cell population prior to secondary infection or use of CD8 knock-out mice had no effect on the development of virus-mediated hyperglycemia. In conclusion, enhanced hyperglycemia induced by CB4 occurs independent of the T cell response.
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- Marc S Horwitz
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 123, Canada
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Hayashi T, Yasutomi Y, Hasegawa K, Sasaki Y, Onodera T. Interleukin-4-expressing plasmid DNA inhibits reovirus type-2-triggered autoimmune insulitis in DBA/1 J suckling mice. Int J Exp Pathol 2003; 84:101-6. [PMID: 12801284 PMCID: PMC2517546 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2613.2003.00341.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In this study we have examined the effect of systemic administration of T helper (Th) 2 cytokines on reovirus type-2 (Reo-2)-triggered Th1-mediated autoimmune insulitis with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in DBA/1J suckling mice. We have demonstrated clearly that the systemic administration of both interleukin (IL)-4-expressing plasmid DNA (pIL-4) and recombinant IL-4 (rIL-4) inhibited the development of insulitis with IGT in a dose dependent manner as compared to untreated groups in Reo-2-infected DBA/1J suckling mice. The inhibitory effects of IL-4 on the development of insulitis with IGT and the advantages of pIL-4 as compared to rIL-4 in this model are discussed.
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- T Hayashi
- Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan.
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Hasegawa K, Hayashi T, Maeda K, Onodera T. Plasmid encoding interferon-gamma exacerbates reovirus type-2-induced diabetes in DBA/1 suckling mice. J Comp Pathol 2002; 127:203-7. [PMID: 12354532 DOI: 10.1053/jcpa.2002.0584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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This study was designed to examine the effects of administration of a plasmid encoding interferon(IFN)-gamma on reovirus type-2(Reo-2)-induced autoimmune insulitis in suckling DBA/1 mice. Cumulative incidences of diabetes and insulitis at 17 days post-infection in the mice treated with IFN-gamma-encoding plasmid were higher than those in control mice treated with "empty" plasmid. These results suggested that the IFN-gamma-encoding plasmid promoted autoimmune insulitis in Reo-2-induced diabetes.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Animals, Suckling
- Blood Glucose/analysis
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/blood
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/virology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/blood
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/virology
- Female
- Interferon-gamma/genetics
- Interferon-gamma/immunology
- Islets of Langerhans/pathology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Orthoreovirus, Mammalian/genetics
- Orthoreovirus, Mammalian/pathogenicity
- Plasmids/administration & dosage
- Plasmids/genetics
- Reoviridae Infections/blood
- Reoviridae Infections/complications
- Reoviridae Infections/pathology
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Affiliation(s)
- K Hasegawa
- Laboratories of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yoshida, Yamaguchi, 753-8515, Japan
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Moriyama H, Wen L, Abiru N, Liu E, Yu L, Miao D, Gianani R, Wong FS, Eisenbarth GS. Induction and acceleration of insulitis/diabetes in mice with a viral mimic (polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid) and an insulin self-peptide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:5539-44. [PMID: 11943868 PMCID: PMC122805 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.082120099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2001] [Accepted: 02/28/2002] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (PolyIC), a "mimic" of double-stranded viral RNA, can induce diabetes when administered to rats with RT1(u), and immunization of normal H-2(d) mice (e.g., BALB/c) with insulin B:9-23 peptide (but not H-2(b)) results in the rapid induction of insulin autoantibodies. Because a mouse model of PolyIC/antigen-induced diabetes is lacking, we sought to produce insulitis and diabetes with either PolyIC and/or B:9-23 peptide immunization. Simultaneous administration of PolyIC and B:9-23 peptide to BALB/c mice (but with neither alone) induced insulitis. CD4 T lymphocytes predominated within islets, and the mice did not progress to hyperglycemia. Islets with transgene-induced expression of the costimulatory B7-1 molecule have enhanced diabetes susceptibility. Diabetes was frequently induced in B7-1 transgenic mice with H-2(d) in contrast to H-2(b) mice after PolyIC administration. Disease induction was accelerated by adding B:9-23 immunization to PolyIC. These studies demonstrate that "normal" mice have autoreactive T lymphocytes able to rapidly target islets and insulin given appropriate MHC alleles and that a peripherally administered insulin peptide (an altered peptide ligand of which is in clinical trials) can enhance specific anti-islet autoimmunity. These first PolyIC/insulin-induced murine models should provide an important tool to study the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes with experimental autoimmune diabetes.
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- Hiroaki Moriyama
- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 East 9th Avenue, Denver, CO 80262, USA
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Hayashi T, Anayama H, Hasegawa K, Iwata H, Onodera T. Systemic administration of histamine reduces reovirus type 2-induced insulitis in suckling DBA/1 mice. J Comp Pathol 2002; 126:153-60. [PMID: 11945004 DOI: 10.1053/jcpa.2001.0536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Previously we suggested that reovirus type 2 (Reo-2) infection induced autoimmune insulitis, resulting in mild diabetes in suckling mice. The effect of histamine (a lymphocyte function suppressor) on Reo-2-induced insulitis was examined. Systemic histamine administration reduced the development of insulitis and blood glucose elevation. Endogenous interleukin-2 (IL-2) activity by splenic cells and the production of antibodies to pancreatic islet cells were reduced by histamine treatment. In addition, histamine treatment increased cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) concentrations in the plasma. These results further suggest that the insulitis seen in Reo-2 infection in suckling mice is induced by an immune reaction.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Animals, Suckling
- Autoimmune Diseases/pathology
- Autoimmune Diseases/prevention & control
- Autoimmune Diseases/virology
- Cells, Cultured
- Cyclic AMP/metabolism
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/prevention & control
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/virology
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Female
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect
- Glucose Tolerance Test
- Histamine/administration & dosage
- Histamine/pharmacology
- Histamine/therapeutic use
- Injections, Subcutaneous
- Interleukin-2/metabolism
- Interleukin-6/metabolism
- Islets of Langerhans/immunology
- Islets of Langerhans/virology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Orthoreovirus/drug effects
- Orthoreovirus/physiology
- Reoviridae Infections/complications
- Reoviridae Infections/drug therapy
- Reoviridae Infections/pathology
- Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms
- Spleen/drug effects
- Spleen/metabolism
- Spleen/pathology
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- T Hayashi
- Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
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This study extends our previous observations that the reovirus type-2(Reo-2) can induce autoimmune insulitis, which may be mediated by T-helper (Th) 1-dependent mechanisms, resulting in diabetes in newborn DBA/1 mice. In this study mRNA expression for Th1-related cytokines including Th1 and Th2 cytokines in splenic cells was examined by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in relation to the development of insulitis. Furthermore, the effect of monoclonal antibody (MoAb) against interleukin (IL)-12(p40) on the development of insulitis and the mRNA expression in the splenic cells was examined. The mRNA expression for IL-12(p40), IL-18, and interferon (IFN)-gamma, but not IL-5, increased in the spleen in parallel with the development of insulitis. The treatment with MoAb to IL-12(p40) reduced the insulitis with diabetes which was associated with a decrease in the mRNA expression for IL-12(p40), IL-18 and IFN-gamma, and an increase of IL-4 mRNA expression in the spleen. The present study suggested that Th1-dominant systemic immune responses, being responsible for the development of autoimmune insulitis, might be induced by IL-12-induced and IL-18-activated mechanisms.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Cytokines/biosynthesis
- Cytokines/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/virology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/virology
- Female
- Insulin/blood
- Interleukin-12/genetics
- Interleukin-12/immunology
- Interleukin-12/physiology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Orthoreovirus
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Reoviridae Infections/immunology
- Reoviridae Infections/pathology
- Spleen/immunology
- Th1 Cells/immunology
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Affiliation(s)
- T Hayashi
- Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Yamaguchi University, Yoshida, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan.
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Seewaldt S, Thomas HE, Ejrnaes M, Christen U, Wolfe T, Rodrigo E, Coon B, Michelsen B, Kay TW, von Herrath MG. Virus-induced autoimmune diabetes: most beta-cells die through inflammatory cytokines and not perforin from autoreactive (anti-viral) cytotoxic T-lymphocytes. Diabetes 2000; 49:1801-9. [PMID: 11078446 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.49.11.1801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Autoimmune diabetes is caused by selective loss of insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells. The main factors directly implicated in beta-cell death are autoreactive, cytotoxic (islet-antigen specific) T-lymphocytes (CTL), and inflammatory cytokines. In this study, we have used an antigen-specific model of virally induced autoimmune diabetes to demonstrate that even high numbers of autoreactive CTL are unable to lyse beta-cells by perforin unless major histocompatibility complex class I is upregulated on islets. This requires the presence of inflammatory cytokines induced by viral infection of the exocrine pancreas but not of the beta-cells. Unexpectedly, we found that the resulting perforin-mediated killing of beta-cells by autoreactive CTL is not sufficient to lead to clinically overt diabetes in vivo, and it is not an absolute prerequisite for the development of insulitis, as shown by studies in perforin-deficient transgenic mice. In turn, destruction of beta-cells also requires a direct effect of gamma-interferon (IFN-gamma), which is likely to be in synergy with other cytokines, as shown in double transgenic mice that express a mutated IFN-gamma receptor on their beta-cells in addition to the viral (target) antigen and do not develop diabetes. Thus, destruction of most beta-cells occurs as cytokine-mediated death and requires IFN-gama in addition to perforin. Understanding these kinetics could be of high conceptual importance for the design of suitable interventions in prediabetic individuals at risk to develop type 1 diabetes.
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- S Seewaldt
- Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Hayashi T, Morimoto M, Iwata H, Onodera T. Interferon-gamma plays a role in pancreatic islet-cell destruction of reovirus type 2-induced diabetes-like syndrome in DBA/1 suckling mice. Int J Exp Pathol 1998; 79:313-20. [PMID: 10193314 PMCID: PMC3220239 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2613.1998.670398.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Reovirus type 2 (Reo-2) infection in DBA/1 suckling mice causes insulitis, which leads to pancreatic islet-cell destruction, resulting in a diabetes-like syndrome. T-helper (Th) 1 cytokines are thought to play a key role in islet inflammation in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. We examined this hypothesis in the Reo-2-induced diabetes-like syndrome. We used reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and quantitative PCR techniques to examine mRNA expression of interferon (IFN)-gamma (Th1 type cytokine), and interleukin (IL)-4 (Th2 type cytokine) in splenic cells. We observed that in Reo-2 infected mice the level of IFN-gamma expression increases with the development of insulitis, whereas expression of message for IL-4 is minimal to detectable with the immuno-inflammatory process 10 days after infection. The treatment of monoclonal antibody (mAb) against mouse IFN-gamma during the expansion phase of insulitis (5-9 days after infection) inhibited the development of insulitis and the elevation of blood glucose concentrations in a dose dependent manner. Furthermore altered CD4+/CD8+ cell ratio compared with uninfected mice in the splenic cells by the infection was recovered to the ratio of uninfected mice by the treatment of mAb against mouse IFN-gamma, suggesting normalization of T cell balance in immune system. These results suggest that Reo-2-triggered autoimmune insulitis may be mediated by Th1 lymphocytes and IFN-gamma may play a role in islet inflammation leading to islet cell destruction.
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- T Hayashi
- Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Yamaguchi University, Japan
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Kanda T, Kogure S, Nara M, Tsukui S, Utsugi T, Tomono S, Kawazu S, Nagai R, Kobayashi I. Combination of OK432 and human interferon-alpha for treating viral-induced diabetes mellitus in mice. Eur J Pharmacol 1998; 342:297-302. [PMID: 9548400 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(97)01476-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We investigated the therapeutic effects of OK432 (picibanil; CAS39325-1-4), an immunomodulator that is derived from the Su strain of Streptococcus pyogenes. This agent was administered alone or combined with human interferon-alpha in a murine model of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Interferon-alpha inhibits viral replication, reducing the incidence of virus-induced IDDM. Groups of DBA/2 mice (N = 25 per group) received an intraperitoneal injection of OK432 and interferon-alpha daily for 16 d beginning 1 d after inoculation with 500 plaque-forming units of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV). The dose of OK432 was one clinical unit (corresponding to 0.1 mg dried cells) per mouse, and that of interferon-alpha was 1 x 10(4) u/g. The animals were killed at random at 3 or 7 d after inoculation with EMCV. The survival rate of mice treated with the combination of OK432 and with interferon-alpha was significantly greater than that of the non-treated infected control animals (P < 0.01). Fasting levels of blood glucose were significantly lower in the mice administered the combination, than in the controls, both on day 3 (68 +/- 21 mg/dl vs. 270 +/- 135 mg/dl, P < 0.01) and on day 7 (101 +/- 29 mg/dl vs. 219 +/- 112 mg/dl, P < 0.01). Serum levels of insulin were significantly higher in the treated mice than in the controls (65 +/- 5 vs. 55 +/- 1 microU/ml, P < 0.05). However, in the mice treated with OK432 or interferon-alpha alone, the survival rate and the blood level of glucose and insulin did not differ from those of infected controls. Natural killer (NK) cell activity was significantly higher in the mice treated with the drug combination than in the controls on both days evaluated: day 3, 65 +/- 5 vs. 55 +/- 1%, n = 3, P < 0.05; day 7, 44 +/- 3 vs. 22 +/- 8%, n = 3, P < 0.05). Serum levels of murine interferon in the treated mice exceeded those in controls on both days evaluated (day 3, 671 U/ml vs. 442 U/ml; day 7, 57 U/ml vs. 43 U/ml). There were no significant differences in NK cell activity or in the interferon level in mice treated with either OK432 or interferon-alpha alone as compared with the infected, non-treated controls. Results suggest that the combination of OK432 and interferon-alpha protects against virally induced IDDM by increasing the activity of NK cells as well as the plasma level of interferon.
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- T Kanda
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
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Hayashi T, Murakami M, Yamamoto S, Ono K, Onodera T. Dimethylthiourea reduces pancreatic islet-cell damage in DBA/1 sucking mice with reovirus type-2 infection. J Comp Pathol 1997; 117:329-38. [PMID: 9502269 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9975(97)80080-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Reovirus type 2 (Reo-2) infection in DBA/1 sucking mice causes pancreatic islet-cell destruction, which results in a diabetes-like syndrome. To investigate the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS), the protective effect of dimethylthiourea (DMTU) was examined, this substance being an effective scavenger of hydroxyl radicals. The degree of cellular infiltration in and around pancreatic islets was the same in mice receiving either virus only or virus and DMTU. The latter had no effect on (1) the number or type of white blood cells, (2) lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1-alpha-positive splenocytes, or (3) viral multiplication in the pancreas. However, treatment with DMTU inhibited the elevation of blood glucose concentrations and reduced pancreatic islet-cell damage (beta-cell degranulation and necrosis). These results suggest that ROS play a role in the pathogenesis of Reo-2-induced diabetes-like syndrome.
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- T Hayashi
- Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yoshida, Japan
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Bhonde RR. Factors influencing induction and reversal of virus induced diabetes. Indian J Exp Biol 1997; 35:267-71. [PMID: 9332172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Injection of encephalomyocarditis virus -D strain in SJL/J mice leads to development of diabetes. In order to ascertain various factors involved in this process, effect of age of the host, dose of virus and glucose pretreatment on incidence of diabetes and its possible reversal were studied. Blood and urine glucose levels of control and experimental mice were followed for 6-8 weeks to reveal diabetic and reversal from diabetic state. It is observed that incidence of diabetes is directly proportional to the age of the host and dose of the virus, leading to maximum destruction of beta cells and minimum chances of recovery from the diabetic state. Glucose injection prior to low dose virus inoculation reduced the incidence of diabetes and enhanced the process of reversal of diabetes. The data reveal the importance of age of host, dose of virus, metabolic state of beta cells and residual beta cell mass in recovery and reversal of virus induced.
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- R R Bhonde
- National Centre for Cell Science, University of Pune campus, Ganeshkhind, India
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von Herrath MG, Dyrberg T, Oldstone MB. Oral insulin treatment suppresses virus-induced antigen-specific destruction of beta cells and prevents autoimmune diabetes in transgenic mice. J Clin Invest 1996; 98:1324-31. [PMID: 8823297 PMCID: PMC507558 DOI: 10.1172/jci118919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Oral administration of self-antigens has been proposed as a therapy to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases. Here we report that oral treatment with insulin prevents virus-induced insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in a transgenic (tg) mouse model. Such mice express the viral nucleoprotein (NP) of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) under control of the rat insulin promoter in their pancreatic beta cells and < 2% spontaneously develop diabetes. However, 2 mo after challenge with LCMV, IDDM occurs in > 95% of tg mice but not in controls. Oral treatment with 1 mg of insulin twice per week for 2 mo starting either 1 wk before or 10 d after initiating LCMV infection prevents IDDM in > 50% of the tg mice (observation time 8 mo). Thus, insulin therapy is effective in preventing progression to overt IDDM in prediabetic tg mice with ongoing islet infiltration. Oral administration of insulin does not affect the generation of LCMV-NP-specific anti-self cytotoxic T lymphocytes nor the infiltration of lymphocytes into the pancreas. However, less beta cells are destroyed in insulin-treated mice, upregulation of MHC class I and II molecules does not occur, and antiviral (self) cytotoxic T lymphocytes are not found in the islets, events present in tg mice developing IDDM. The majority of lymphocytes in the islets of insulin-treated tg mice without IDDM produces IL-4, IL-10, and TGF-beta. In contrast, lymphocytes from islets of tg mice developing IDDM mainly make gamma-IFN.
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- M G von Herrath
- Department of Neuropharmacology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
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Mizutani M, El-Fotoh M, Mori M, Ono K, Doi K, Awaya A, Matsumoto Y, Matsumoto Y, Onodera T. In vivo administration of serum thymic factor (FTS) prevents EMC-D virus-induced diabetes and myocarditis in BALB/cAJcl mice. Arch Virol 1996; 141:73-83. [PMID: 8629952 DOI: 10.1007/bf01718589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The effect of serum thymic factor (FTS) on the D-variant of encephalomyocarditis (EMC-D) virus-induced diabetes and myocarditis in BALB/cAJcl mice was investigated. Mice pretreated with 50 or 10 micrograms of FTS were infected with 10 or 10(3) PFU of EMC-D virus. In the mice inoculated with 10 PFU of virus, 40% developed diabetes on post-infection day (PID) 14, whereas those treated with FTS (50 micrograms/administration) on day 2 and 1 before infection did not develop diabetes. FTS (10 micrograms)-pretreated mice developed diabetes. In histological observation, FTS non-treated mice which developed diabetes showed severe necrosis and inflammation of mononuclear cells in the islets of Langerhans and myocardia on 19 PID. Mice pretreated with 50 micrograms of FTS, however, manifested mild islet degeneration without any myocardial inflammation. Furthermore, in FTS non-treated mice, immunohistological staining showed a loss of insulin granules. This loss was markedly reversed and insulin granules remained largely intact in FTS-pretreated mice. Viral titers in pancreas of FTS-pretreated mice approximated well to those of non-treated mice on PID 4, 7 and 19. In mice inoculated with higher titer of EMC-D virus (10(3) PFU), however, 50 micrograms of FTS pretreatment did not change the course of these acute pathological developments (diabetes and myocarditis observed from PID 4).
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blood Glucose/metabolism
- Cardiovirus Infections/pathology
- Cardiovirus Infections/prevention & control
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/prevention & control
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/virology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/pathology
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/prevention & control
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/virology
- Drug Administration Schedule
- Encephalomyocarditis virus/growth & development
- Heart/virology
- Islets of Langerhans/pathology
- Islets of Langerhans/virology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred A
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Myocarditis/pathology
- Myocarditis/prevention & control
- Myocarditis/virology
- Myocardium/pathology
- Pancreas/pathology
- Pancreas/virology
- Thymic Factor, Circulating/administration & dosage
- Thymic Factor, Circulating/therapeutic use
- Time Factors
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- M Mizutani
- Department of Molecular Immunology, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Hayashi T, Yamamoto S, Onodera T. Prevention of reovirus type 2-induced diabetes-like syndrome in DBA/1 suckling mice by treatment with antibodies against intercellular adhesion molecule-1 and lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1. Int J Exp Pathol 1995; 76:403-9. [PMID: 8652360 PMCID: PMC1997205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Reovirus type 2-induced diabetes-like syndrome in suckling mice is considered to be an animal model for human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. We have previously demonstrated that immunopathologic pancreatic islet cell damage might be relevant to reovirus type 2 infection. In this study the involvement of adhesion molecules in the development of reovirus type 2-induced diabetes-like syndrome was examined. In infected mice infiltration of mononuclear cells mixed with polymorphonuclear leucocytes in and around pancreatic islets (insulitis) was observed in association with abnormal glucose tolerance. The treatment with monoclonal antibodies against intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) prevented the development of insulitis with abnormal glucose tolerance in a dose dependent manner. These results suggest that ICAM-1 and LFA-1 molecules may, at least in part, participate in islet cell damage, resulting in reovirus type 2-induced diabetes-like syndrome. The role of ICAM-1 and LFA-1 molecules on the development of insulitis is discussed.
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- T Hayashi
- Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Yamaguchi University, Japan
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Jun HS, Yoon SW, Kang Y, Pak CY, Lee MC, Yoon JW. Cloning and expression of the VP1 major capsid protein of diabetogenic encephalomyocarditis (EMC) virus and prevention of EMC virus-induced diabetes by immunization with the recombinant VP1 protein. J Gen Virol 1995; 76 ( Pt 10):2557-66. [PMID: 7595359 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-76-10-2557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The development of diabetes in mice induced by encephalomyocarditis (EMC) virus provides the best experimental evidence that viruses have an aetiological role in the pathogenesis of this disease. The major capsid protein (VP1) of EMC virus is important for both the attachment of the virus to pancreatic beta cells and for the determination of antigenicity. This experiment was initiated to clone the gene for the major capsid protein, VP1, of the diabetogenic EMC (EMC-D) virus, express the VP1 protein, and test whether the recombinant VP1 protein can prevent development of EMC-D virus-induced diabetes in mice. We successfully cloned the VP1 gene of the EMC-D virus in the expression vector pRSET and subsequently expressed the protein in Escherichia coli. The recombinant VP1 protein was then purified by affinity chromatography. Five- to six-week-old male SJL/J mice were immunized intraperitoneally with purified VP1 protein and then challenged after various intervals with highly diabetogenic EMC-D virus. None of the VP1-immunized mice developed diabetes, irrespective of the interval between immunization and virus challenge, whereas 80 to 95% of the EMC-D virus-infected control mice did develop diabetes. All of the VP1-immunized mice showed intact pancreatic islet architecture, whereas most of the infected control mice showed severe beta cell necrosis and lymphocytic infiltration of their pancreatic islets. On the basis of these observations, we conclude that the recombinant VP1 protein of EMC-D virus can completely prevent the development of EMC-D virus-induced diabetes in mice.
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- H S Jun
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Kang Y, Chatterjee NK, Nodwell MJ, Yoon JW. Complete nucleotide sequence of a strain of coxsackie B4 virus of human origin that induces diabetes in mice and its comparison with nondiabetogenic coxsackie B4 JBV strain. J Med Virol 1994; 44:353-61. [PMID: 7897366 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1890440408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The E2 strain of coxsackie B4 virus (CB4), which is of human origin, can induce a diabetes-like syndrome in mice. The cDNA of the genome of the E2 strain was cloned and sequenced. The E2 viral genome was found to comprise 7,396 bases, which appear to encode a polyprotein of 2,183 amino acids with an overall similarity of 94.91% to nondiabetogenic CB4 prototype JBV strain. The E2 genome is organized like other enteroviruses. It has a 5' noncoding region of 744 nucleotides, a single long open translational reading frame starting at nucleotide 745 and extending to nucleotide 7293, a 3' noncoding region of 100 nucleotides, and a poly (A) tract. Genomic sequence comparison of the E2 and JBV strains showed 1,369 nucleotide substitutions in the genome of the E2 strain, most of which are single and silent. There were 111 resultant amino acid changes arising from some of these substitutions, including 82 amino acid changes in the noncapsid proteins, and 29 amino acid changes in the capsid proteins VP1, VP2, VP3, and VP4, which showed 11, 13, 4, and 1 substitution(s), respectively. Noncapsid protein P2-C showed eight amino acid substitutions. On the basis of the sequence comparison of E2 and JBV strains of CB4, we suggest that some of the amino acid changes in the capsid and noncapsid proteins of the E2 strain may be involved in the determination of its diabetogenicity.
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- Y Kang
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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IDDM is unquestionably an autoimmune disease, as reflected by the presence of beta-cell-reactive autoantibodies and T cells, T cell-mediated transfer of the disease in nondiabetic mice, rats, and humans, and disease sensitivity to immunosuppressive therapy. T cells are predominantly, if not exclusively, involved in creating the islet lesions that lead to beta-cell atrophy after a stage of reversible inflammation. A full understanding of the disease pathogenesis will require a better definition of the nature of the triggering and target autoantigen(s) and of the effector mechanisms (cytokines, cytotoxic cells?). Much less information is available on the etiology than on the pathogenesis. Genetic factors are mandatory and the involvement of predisposition genes (HLA and non-HLA) is now being unravelled. The modulatory role of environmental factors is demonstrated by the high disease discordance rate in identical twins and by experimental data showing positive and negative modulation of the disease by a number of agents, notably infectious agents and food constituents. It is not clear, however, whether a given environmental factor, e.g. a precise virus or a cow's milk component, plays a real etiological role in a selected genetic background. IDDM thus appears as a multifactorial disease. It is not known, however, whether all factors intervene concomitantly in a given individual or separately in subsets of patients, explaining the clinical heterogeneity of the disease. The mechanisms underlying the loss of tolerance to self beta-cell autoantigen(s) are still unknown. Defective intrathymic negative selection of autoantigen-specific autoreactive T cell clones is unlikely. Breakdown of T cell anergy could occur according to various mechanisms, including aberrant expression of MHC molecules and molecular mimicry. Defective suppressor T cell function, perhaps related to TH1/TH2 imbalance, probably intervenes by amplifying the anti-beta-cell autoimmune response whatever its triggering mechanism. Before putative etiological agents are identified, one must base immunotherapy on nonantigen-specific agents. Results recently obtained in NOD mice indicate that the goal of nontoxic long-lasting immune protection from the disease is feasible if treatment is started early enough. In some cases (anti-T cell monoclonal antibodies), it appears that specific unresponsiveness can be induced. This double strategy (early intervention, tolerance induction) is the main challenge for immunodiabetologists.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- J F Bach
- INSERM U 25, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France
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