Immune Therapy Stops Diabetes in Mouse Study
Tue 8 June, 2004 04:01
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Using one type of immune system cell to turn off another stopped type-1 diabetes in mice and may offer a new approach to the devastating disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
The study suggests it may be possible to retrain a faulty immune system, stopping it from ravaging the pancreas and causing type-1 or juvenile diabetes, the researchers said.
Writing in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Kristin Tarbell and colleagues at Rockefeller University in New York said they used immune system cells called dendritic cells to stimulate production of suppressor T-cells.
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