Diabetes Research Centre

Diabetes Research Centre

Melbourne, Australia

 

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Pathogenesis and Prevention of Type 1 Diabetes

 

Scientific highlights & reports from 2005

The prospect of vaccination to prevent type 1 diabetes (click here to read a plain English version of this highlight)

Revealing what pathogenic T cells see in type 1 diabetes

Clinical screening identifies autoimmune diabetes in adults

HLA phenotypes differ in adults and children with autoimmune diabetes

TrialNet, an international consortium to prevent type 1 diabetes

Identification and analysis of autoantigen-specific regulatory T cells

 

Scientific highlights & reports from 2004

Insulin resistance is a risk factor for progression to Type 1 diabetes (click here to read a plain English version of this highlight)

Expanding immunological ‘self’: expression of self-antigens, including a proinsulin mRNA splice variant, by human blood myeloid cells

Production of human proinsulin and proinsulin monoclonal antibodies

An efficient method for cloning rare autoantigen-specific T cells from human peripheral blood

Myeloid progenitor cells encoding proinsulin differentiate into resting dendritic cells in vivo and inhibit autoimmune diabetes

 

Pancreas Development Immune Mechanisms Publications

 

 

 

 

Diabetes Research Centre

Last updated 19 December, 2007. For further information about this website, please contact Catherine McLean