Vaccination against type 1 diabetes at the clinical trial stage

Lernmark, A.

Lakartidningen 96(11): 1300-1302

1999


ISSN/ISBN: 0023-7205
PMID: 10194908
Document Number: 510011
The occurrence of type I diabetes is associated with autoimmunity against insulin, glutamate decarboxylase (GAD65) and the transmembrane protein IA-2. Experiments in the spontaneously diabetic NOD mouse and the BB rat have shown early autoantigen treatment to confer protection from diabetes. The question remains of whether human type I diabetes can be prevented by autoantigen 'vaccination'.

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