Serreze David V, Leiter Edward H
The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA.
J Clin Invest. 2003 Sep;112(6):826-8. doi: 10.1172/JCI19842.
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is usually caused by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells by T cells. Methodologies to track the development, migration, and functional activation of one class of such T cells (CD4 T cells) have been limited. However, it now appears that this limitation has been overcome.
胰岛素依赖型糖尿病通常是由T细胞对胰腺β细胞的自身免疫性破坏所致。追踪这类T细胞(CD4 T细胞)中一类细胞的发育、迁移和功能激活的方法一直有限。然而,现在看来这一限制已被克服。