Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, July 26th, 2004
"In both human patients and murine models, the progression from insulitis to diabetes is neither immediate nor inevitable, as illustrated by the innocuous versus destructive infiltrates of BDC2.5 transgenic mice on the nonobese diabetic (NOD) versus C57BL/6.H-2g7 genetic backgrounds," researchers in the United States report.
"Natural killer (NK)-cell-specific transcripts and the proportion of NK cells were increased in leukocytes from the aggressive BDC2.5/B6.H-2g7 lesions," L Poirot and colleagues reported in the Proceedings of the National...
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