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Transgenic mice expressing simian virus 40 T antigen under control of the insulin gene regulatory region vary in their response to this protein. Each lineage is characteristically either tolerant to T antigen, or not, in which case autoantibodies arise with high frequency, and lymphocytes infiltrate and disrupt the pancreatic islets. Both non-tolerance and the autoimmune response appear to result from delayed onset of T antigen expression during β cell development.
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Adams, T., Alpert, S. & Hanahan, D. Non-tolerance and autoantibodies to a transgenic self antigen expressed in pancreatic β cells. Nature 325, 223–228 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/325223a0
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