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The Influence of Sex Hormones on Immunological Processes in the Induction of Diabetes

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Immunology of Clinical and Experimental Diabetes

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Although diabetes mellitus in humans and experimental animals has been studied for many years, the basic mechanisms underlying the induction of diabetes are still not clear. Recent studies, including our own results, suggest that immune mechanisms may play important roles in the induction and pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus. The evidence supporting the idea of an immune mechanism for induction of diabetes includes the following observations: (1) the occurrence of lymphocyte infiltration of pancreatic islets in acute juvenile-onset- (Type I) diabetes (Gepts, 1965, 1972), (2) the occurrence of autoantibodies to islet cells in Type 1 (Bottazzo et al., 1974; MacCuish et al., 1974a,b), (3) the finding that diabetes mellitus could not be induced in athymic nude mice by diabetogenic M-strain encephalomyocarditis virus (EMC virus) (Buschard and Rygaard, 1976), or diabetogenic chemicals (Buschard and Rygaard, 1978; Paik et al., 1980), and (4) the finding that diabetes mellitus could be transferred to normal mice by the passive transfer of spleen cells from diabetic mice induced by streptozotocin (SZ) (Buschard and Rygaard, 1978; Kiesel et al., 1980).

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Kim, Y.T., Moody, C.E. (1984). The Influence of Sex Hormones on Immunological Processes in the Induction of Diabetes. In: Gupta, S. (eds) Immunology of Clinical and Experimental Diabetes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4559-6_6

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