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We have tested whether experimental insulitis induced by multiple subdiabetogenic injections of streptozotocin can be transferred by lymphocytes to normal recipients. C57BL/6J mice were treated on 5 consecutive days with 40 mg streptozotocin /kg body weight. 5×107 nucleated spleen cells from 20 animals which had developed hyperglycaemia with concomitant insulitis three weeks after the first streptozotocin-injection, were transferred into congenic thymusless C57BL/6J-nu/nu mice. The cell transfer led to lymphocytic infiltrations of pancreatic islets in 75% of the recipients. Hyperglycaemia was not observed. It is concluded that lowdose streptozotocin treatment induces cellular immune reactions against pancreatic islets.
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Kiesel, U., Freytag, G., Biener, J. et al. Transfer of experimental autoimmune insulitis by spleen cells in mice. Diabetologia 19, 516–520 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00253178
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