| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
,
Divisions of
*
Rheumatology and Immunology and
Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; Departments of
Immunology and Rheumatology,
Pharmacology, and
¶ Comparative Medicine, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ 07065; and
|| Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Mechanisms in Disease, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 |
Abstract |
|---|
 Top Abstract IntroductionMaterials and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
|
Introduction |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
In this study, we present a model system manifesting completely different autoimmune syndromes in NOD and NOD congenic strains differing at critical insulin-dependent diabetes (Idd) intervals. The NOD mouse has been extensively studied as a model of genetic control of autoimmunity. NOD mice develop immune-mediated pancreatic 
cell destruction (insulitis), progressing to diabetes in 70–80% of female mice by 30 wk of age (7). The initial genome scan, performed over a decade ago, identified many potential B10 protective Idd loci (8). Many of these loci cluster in regions of the mouse genome associated with other mouse autoimmune syndromes (5). A series of congenic mice have been produced, using microsatellite-defined non-MHC Idd loci derived from diabetes-resistant strains of mice introgressed onto the NOD background; these mice show decreased diabetes incidence, and hence validate the initial linkage studies. NOD.c3 and NOD.c4 congenic mice have a diabetes frequency of 3 and 5%, respectively (Fig. 1) (9, 10, 11). As we predicted, combining NOD.c3 (chromosome 3, Idd3, Idd10, Idd17, and Idd18) with NOD.c4 (chromosome 4, Idd9.1, Idd9.2, and Idd9.3) totally eliminated diabetes (9). We show in this study, however, that while a combination of protective c3/c4 loci can effectively prevent diabetes, they interact with the NOD genome to result in a novel, genetically controlled autoimmune liver disease.
|
|
Materials and Methods |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
The development of the NOD.c3c4 strain from the parental strains, NOD.B10 Idd9.1/9.2/9.3 and NOD.B6 Idd3/17/10/18, was described previously (9). The c3c4 strain has 
80 cM genetic intervals on chromosomes 4 and 3 introgressed from B10 and B6, respectively (Fig. 1). The NOD.B10 Idd9.1/9.2/9.3R28 strain (9), called c4(a) and used as the parental chromosome 4 congenic strain in this study, has a smaller introgressed region (60 cM) from the B10 strain as compared with the NOD.B10 Idd9.1/9.2/9.3 parental strain (which is no longer extant). The c3(a) strain was described previously (10) as the NOD.B6 Idd3R1/Idd10R2 strain. Although the Idd17 resistance gene is not present in the c3(a) strain, diabetes resistance of this strain is identical with that of the NOD.B6 Idd3/17/10/18 parental strain (which is also no longer extant), which was called NOD.B6 (Idd3/Idd10)R1 (10). Please note that subsequent to the publication of Ref.10 , the Idd10 region was shown to consist of two Idd genes, Idd10 and Idd18 (11), and therefore the strain designations were updated for the descriptions used in the current study. The c3c4 and c3(a) strains were selectively bred to produce the novel c3(a)c4 strain. The c3c4, c3(a), c4(a), and c3(a)c4 strains are available from Taconic Farms (Germantown, NY) through the Emerging Models Program (lines 1112, 1538, 1104, and 1802, respectively).
Histology
Organs were fixed in 10% buffered formalin and processed for paraffin embedding. Tissue sections (5 µm) were stained with H&E and evaluated microscopically for leukocytic infiltration and cyst scores.
Antinuclear Ab (ANA) immunofluorescence
Prepared HEP-2 slides were purchased from Diasorin (Stillwater, MN). Mouse sera were diluted 1/20 in 10 mM PBS, pH 7.3. A total of 25 µl of the diluted sera was incubated on the slide for 30 min in a dark, moist chamber and washed in 10 mM PBS in a Coplin jar for 10 min. Fluorescein-conjugated goat Ab to mouse IgG, IgM, and IgA (Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Costa Mesa, CA) was diluted 1/100 in PBS. A total of 35 µl of the diluted conjugate was placed on each well, and the slide was incubated 30 min in a dark, moist chamber and washed in PBS for 10 min. Slides were viewed and scored at x400 magnification with a dry lens of a Leitz fluorescence microscope equipped with a mercury vapor lamp. (Leica Microsystems, Bannockburn, IL).
Protein immunoprecipitation (IP)
Protein IP assays were set up, as previously described (12). Briefly, rapidly growing, undifferentiated K562 cells were grown at 37°C and 5% CO2 in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS. Cells were collected in 200-ml conical tubes, centrifuged at 800 rpm for 8 min, washed once with prewarmed methionine-free DMEM culture medium, and centrifuged again. The medium was removed, and for each sample the following were added: 5 ml of methionine-free DMEM supplemented with 3% FBS, 50 µCi of [35S]methionine (ExpreSS; New England Nuclear, Boston, MA), and 1 x 106 K562 cells. The cells were labeled at 37°C overnight (8–16 h), collected, washed, and suspended in 5–10 ml of IP buffer: 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, 500 mM NaCl, and 0.1% Igepal. They were then sonicated, and the sonicate was centrifuged for 10 min at 4°C at 14,000 rpm to remove debris. A 10-µl serum sample was bound overnight to 2 mg of protein A-Sepharose CL4b beads (Pharmacia), washed three times with IP buffer, and incubated 2 h at 4°C with the [35S]methionine-radiolabeled extract from 1 x 106 rapidly dividing K562 cells. The beads were washed three times with IP buffer, suspended in 2x Laemmli sample buffer, loaded on a standard size 8–15% SDS-PAGE gel with a 5% stack, and electrophoresed at 200 V. The gels were enhanced by soaking for 30 min in 0.5 M sodium salicylate. The gels were dried and autoradiographed 2–7 days. Apparent m.w. of positive bands were determined by plotting the m.w. of known 14C-labeled standards run on the same gel.
Anti-DNA assays
Anti-DNA assays were set up, as previously described (13), with the following modifications. Calf thymus DNA (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO) was dissolved in solution (33 mM Na acetate, 50 mM NaCl, 0.03 mM ZnCl, pH 4.5) and incubated with S1 nuclease (Invitrogen Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA) at 0.1 U/µg for 45 min. The reaction was stopped by the addition of Na2 EDTA (pH 8.0) to a final concentration of 10 mM. An equal volume of isoamyl alcohol/chloroform (1:24) was added to remove protein. After centrifugation, the DNA was precipitated with cold 95% ethanol and dissolved in SSC (0.1 M NaCl, 0.014 M Na citrate, pH 8.0). The concentration of DNA was determined by spectrophotometry; the 260/280 ratio was higher than 1.9. ssDNA was prepared by boiling for 3 min with subsequent rapid cooling on ice. For dsDNA assays, S1-treated DNA was used. Each well of an ELISA 96-well plate was precoated with 100 µl of protamine sulfate working solution (0.0001%), then coated with 100 µl of 5 µg/ml DNA 1 h at room temperature. Wells were blocked with PBS supplemented with 1% BSA, pH 7.2. A total of 50 µl of appropriately diluted sera was added to each well and incubated for 1 h at room temperature, washed, then stained with biotin-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG or IgM in duplicate or triplicate for 1 h at room temperature. Europium-labeled streptavidin, followed by enhancement solution, was added, and time-resolved fluorometry was performed on a Wallac 1420 Victor2 fluorometer (PerkinElmer Wallac, Upsala, Sweden). A pool of B6 control sera was run with each sample, providing a consistent reference standard. The results are expressed as a stimulation index = Eu counts (experimental)/Eu counts (control serum).
Transfer studies
We followed the standard protocol used to transfer diabetes into NOD recipients (14). Seven- to 12-wk-old female NOD.c3c4 recipient mice were irradiated with 700–750 rad. A total of 25 x 106 donor splenocytes suspended in PBS was transferred i.v. into the irradiated recipients; irradiated controls received PBS alone. The livers of the donors were examined histologically. The recipients were aged 90 days posttransfer, then analyzed for histological evidence of liver disease.
|
Results |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
Predicting that the combination of the NOD.B6 Idd3/17/10/18 (chromosome 3, c3) and NOD.B10 Idd9.1/9.2/9.3 (chromosome 4, c4) congenic strains would create an NOD-related strain, which has no autoimmune diabetes, we derived a new double congenic strain, NOD.c3c4 (9) (see genetic map; Fig. 1). As expected, NOD.c3c4 mice were not susceptible to autoimmune diabetes (no mice developed diabetes by 12 mo of age), and almost no insulitis was observed (9). Unexpectedly, the NOD.c3c4 strain developed an entirely different syndrome, with biliary disease resulting in massive hepatomegaly (Fig. 2). Liver failure leading to a moribund state developed in 50% of females and 25% of males at 9–11 mo of age. Histological examination showed marked biliary cyst formation progressing with age (Fig. 3, A–C), and progressive lymphocytic infiltrates adjacent to the cyst walls (Fig. 3, G–I). As the liver disease progressed in the NOD.c3c4 mice, biliary obstruction worsened, resulting in ascites formation and a moribund condition. Elevated serum transaminases (aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase) accompanied histological evidence of disease (data not shown). Cysts were not found in any other organ. Consistent with the observation that none of the NOD.c3c4 mice developed diabetes, the pancreatic islets showed only minimal periinsulitis (Fig. 3, D–F), and the salivary glands showed 50% of the lymphocytic infiltration observed in NOD mice (data not shown).
|
|
Component immunophenotypes in donor strains: NOD mice congenic for resistance alleles on chromosome 3 mice develop lymphocytic liver infiltrates not seen in other NOD congenic mice
Notably, like the NOD strain, neither of the parental strains that had been bred together to develop the NOD.c3c4 strain, c3 (NOD.B6 Idd3/10/17/18) and c4 (NOD.B10 Idd9.1/9.2/9.3), showed any hepatomegaly after aging for over 1 year (n > 100 females for each strain). However, we hypothesized that subclinical abnormalities potentially related to the liver disease might be present in one or both of these strains. Because the c3 and c4 strains used to develop the NOD.c3c4 strain are not extant, the examination of chromosome 3 and 4 congenic strains for component immunophenotypes was performed with related congenic strains (see Materials and Methods for strain derivation), NOD.c3(a) and NOD.c4(a) (Fig. 1). Upon histological examination, four of four 33-wk-old female NOD.c3(a) mice demonstrated peribiliary lymphocytic aggregations without cyst formation (Fig. 4). This abnormality was not present in NOD mice nor in NOD.c4(a) mice.
|
ANA testing was performed on each strain. Female NOD.c3c4 mice began developing positive ANA at 12 wk, with 45% (5 of 11) positive at 16 wk and 83% (58 of 70) ANA+ at 22 wk and older (Fig. 5). NOD.c4(a) mice also had a high incidence of ANA positivity, with 12 of 23 female mice ANA+ at 20 wk and older. Most (greater than 95%) NOD, B6, and NOD.c3(a) mice were ANA negative (Fig. 5). In c3c4 mice, serum antinuclear autoantibodies generally formed after the development of histological disease. However, the correlation was not absolute because occasionally c3c4 mice were ANA+ while showing no histological evidence of biliary disease.
|
50% penetrance of anti-Sm Abs in the NOD.c3c4 and NOD.c4(a) mice is similar to that observed in the autoimmune MRL/Mp-lpr/lpr mouse (16).
|
We further characterized autoantibody production in the NOD, NOD.c3(a), NOD.c4(a), B6, and NOD.c3c4 strains by analyzing anti-ssDNA and anti-dsDNA Ab levels. The IgM dsDNA titer was significantly elevated in NOD.c3c4 mice aged less than 6 mo, but in none of the other strains (Fig. 7A). As the mice aged past 8 mo, only NOD.c3c4 mice demonstrated significant elevations of IgG dsDNA autoantibody compared with the other genetically related strains (Fig. 7A). The increase in titers was statistically equivalent to anti-DNA titers in NZB mice (Fig. 7B). NOD.c3c4 mice older than 8 mo also demonstrated increased IgM dsDNA and ssDNA, and IgG ssDNA autoantibody titers (Fig. 7C, and data not shown). Older female NOD.c3c4 mice demonstrated significant increases in titers of IgM dsDNA, IgG ssDNA, and IgG dsDNA compared with male mice (Fig. 7C), suggesting a more severe autoantibody response in female mice.
|
One fundamental test of autoimmune etiology in experimental models is transfer of autoimmunity by lymphocytes from affected to unaffected mice (14). An autoimmune etiology for NOD diabetes was first suggested by the transfer of diabetes with splenocytes from diabetic mice (14, 15). We used the NOD splenic transfer protocol to test whether the liver disease could be transferred with immunocytes or whether the liver inflammation was secondary to a degenerative process intrinsic to biliary/hepatic cells. A total of 25 x 106 splenocytes, or PBS alone, was transferred from diseased older mice to young, irradiated NOD.c3c4 recipients. Five of seven splenocyte recipients developed histological evidence of liver disease, compared with one of four PBS recipients (Fig. 8 and Table I). Consistent with results in NOD, irradiation was protective of disease in absence of cotransfer of pathogenic splenocytes (14).
|
|
To exclude any contribution by an infectious agent, NOD.c3c4 mice were rederived by embryo transfer at Taconic Farms. The liver disease emerged with equal penetrance following rederivation, excluding a pathogenic bacterial/viral/parasitic etiology for our observations.
Diabetes, not liver disease, is dominant in (NOD.c3c4 x NOD)F1 mice
To begin to dissect the relationship of the genetic control of T1D and the autoimmune liver disease, we tested for liver disease and diabetes in two F1 crosses. Of 20 (NOD.c3c4 x NOD)F1 mice aged to over 1 year, 9 developed diabetes and none developed liver disease. Thus, one dose of the chromosome 3 and 4 liver disease alleles is insufficient to induce liver disease in the context of the NOD background. (NOD.c3c4 x B6.H2g7)F1 mice showed neither diabetes nor liver disease. This result demonstrated that the B6/B10 alleles, which are homozygous in this F1 (assuming B6 and B10 mice share disease alleles at both chromosomes), must interact with additional NOD genes present in a homozygous state on the NOD genetic background to generate the NOD.c3c4 liver disease phenotype. These results also demonstrate that a spontaneous dominant mutation is not the cause of liver disease in the c3c4 mice.
Autoantibody studies were performed in the F1 mice. Seven of 10 (NOD.c3c4 x NOD)F1 mice were ANA+, and 4 of 5 tested by IP were anti-Sm+. In contrast, 6 of 17 (NOD.c3c4 x B6.H2g7)F1 mice were ANA+, and 0 of 17 were anti-Sm+. This result demonstrates that c3c4 loci are dominant for autoantibody production when present on a homozygous NOD background. In contrast, anti-Sm autoantibodies cannot arise when the B6/B10 c3c4 alleles are homozygous on a heterozygous NOD/B6 background (see Table II).
|
To determine whether the same genes that contribute protection from T1D confer liver disease susceptibility or, alternatively, that the colocalization is due to linked loci, we have initiated the development of congenic strains that will continue to be susceptible to liver disease if the Idd genes themselves are also the liver disease genes. Because the NOD.c3(a) and the no longer extant NOD.c3 strains had the same degree of protections from diabetes (see Materials and Methods) and the NOD.c3(a) mice showed the component immunophenotype of liver infiltration (Fig. 4), we reasoned that the presence of a B6 allele at Idd17 may not be necessary to develop liver disease. We therefore developed the NOD.c3(a)c4 strain (Fig. 1), which contains resistant alleles from B6 at Idd3, Idd10, and Idd18, but is NOD at Idd17. We crossed the NOD.c3(a) mouse to the NOD.c3c4 mouse and by selective intercrossing developed the NOD.c3(a)c4 strain, which has significantly less B6 genetic material on chromosome 3 as compared with the NOD.c3c4 strain (Fig. 1). Preliminary results show that this new strain develops the NOD.c3c4 liver disease phenotype. Ten of 21 mice aged over 39 wk developed liver disease, excluding the B6 Idd17 allele as an essential genetic component for the development of liver disease, and significantly narrowing the chromosome 3 intervals implicated in liver pathogenesis.
|
Discussion |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
The combination of the B10 c4 interval and the B6 c3 genetic intervals in NOD.c3c4 mice resulted in anti-Sm autoantibodies and anti-DNA Abs. The NOD and NOD.c3(a) strains, however, showed no autoantibodies, while the NOD.c4(a) mice produced antinuclear and anti-Sm Abs, but no dsDNA Abs. The capacity of the B10 Idd9 interval to generate autoantibody production on the NOD background is interesting in light of the overlap of this interval with a chromosome 4 region (Sle2) previously shown to predispose to B cell hyperactivity in New Zealand mixed lupus-prone mice (17, 18). The present studies suggest the possibility that the B10 Idd9 region may, in combination with NOD background genes, drive autoantibody production via a similar biochemical pathway as Sle1, 2, and 3 in the murine lupus model (18). Anti-Sm Abs target proteins in the U small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) family, which perform pre-RNA splicing in the nucleus. The Sm proteins are shared by many of the different U snRNPs; autoantibodies to specific U snRNPs are specific for different autoimmune syndromes (such as anti-U1 snRNPs, which are found for polymyositis, and anti-U2 snRNPs, which are seen in autoimmune overlap syndromes) (19). The emergence of anti-Sm autoantibodies was somewhat unexpected, as these are considered specific for SLE in human SLE and murine lupus models (19). Some groups, however, have reported ANA in NOD mice, with a variable penetrance (20, 21). Other groups found no ANA in unmanipulated NOD mice, but detected antinuclear and anti-Sm Abs after treatment with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (Mycobacterium bovis) (22). The same group subsequently showed that bacillus Calmette-Guérin acted via an adjuvant-like effect on APCs (23). Subsequently, this group demonstrated that M. bovis injection of NOD mice produced anti-Sm and anti-dsDNA reactivities of an IgG2a subtype, suggesting against immune deviation to Th2 as an etiology (24). Linkage analysis of the effect of M. bovis treatment on NOD mice was performed in a backcross to BALB/c mice, and identified loci on chromosomes 1 and 17 (25). Cha et al. (26) found that NOD Idd3/5 intervals introgressed onto the B6 background allowed detection of ANA, as well, suggesting that Idd3 and 5 intervals could contribute to the development of ANA production. Although these loci do not all overlap with the genetic intervals identified in our model, the general picture emerging from our studies combined with these previous studies is that either environmental (M. bovis, and possibly different mouse-room flora in different colonies) or genetic perturbations of the NOD immune system can drive it toward an SLE-like autoantibody response. As in many autoimmune syndromes, the pathological contribution of the autoantibodies is open to question; we will test the pathogenicity of the autoantibodies in future studies using a transfer system.
The outcross studies that we performed provided insights into the genetic control of liver disease in NOD.c3c4 mice. Because nearly 50% of the (NOD.c3c4 x NOD)F1 mice developed diabetes, but none developed liver disease, it is possible to conclude that the two disease processes, T1D and the biliary autoimmune process, cannot occur simultaneously, as if the autoimmune response focuses on one organ system. However, the observed result of diabetes in the F1 mice could be explained by a recessive mode of inheritance for the liver disease as opposed to a dominant mode for T1D. Regardless, it is intriguing to speculate that the underlying genetic pathway controlling these two different organ-specific autoimmune syndromes may overlap substantially (require the NOD genetic background), but that the choice of target organ is influenced by other loci. This genetic result has implications for understanding the pathogenesis of autoimmune syndromes in humans. The occurrence of a diverse clinical set of autoimmune syndromes in a human kindred could be explained by a shared autoimmune-prone genetic background modified by additional genetic loci that then focus the clinical manifestations of the breakdown of tolerance. Similarly, one can hypothesize that autoimmune syndromes/diseases that appear radically different from a clinical perspective may share genetic/biochemical pathways that differ only at a few points.
The discovery of a spontaneous, autoimmune biliary tract disease in NOD.c3c4 mice raises the question of analogy to any similar human disease process. PBC has been described at a greater incidence in relatives of patients with T1D (3, 4). PBC is a human autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration into the biliary epithelium; progressive biliary epithelial damage resulting in fibrosis, biliary tract obstruction, and ultimately liver failure; and a specific immune response to mitochondrial enzymes (the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC)) (27). A series of studies demonstrated that the anti-PDC Ab is predominantly directed to the E2 enzyme of the PDC complex (28, 29, 30, 31). A second series of studies demonstrated T cell epitopes in the E2 complex, and support the hypothesis that PBC is a T cell-mediated disease driven by PDC-reactive autoimmune T cells with a Th1 phenotype (32, 33, 34, 35, 36). As we demonstrate in this study, NOD.c3c4 mice develop a spontaneous biliary tract disease characterized by lymphocytic portal tract infiltrations, biliary obstruction, and eventual mortality due to obstructive liver failure, and the disease is transferable by splenocytes, implicating likely T cell involvement. The major difference between NOD.c3c4 mice and human PBC is that NOD.c3c4 mice developed biliary epithelial hyperplasia (resulting in cysts) rather than the biliary epithelial damage with fibrosis seen in humans. Nonetheless, it is possible that a different pathological response of murine biliary epithelia to infiltrating lymphocytes could be due to genetically determined differences in tissue injury response. To pursue this issue, future studies will determine B and T cell responses of NOD.c3c4 mice to murine pyruvate dehydrogenase.
The results from the current study, that a resistance region for one disease (T1D) contains genetic elements that confer increased susceptibility to another lethal syndrome (biliary disease), complement the recent demonstration that a single NOD Idd susceptibility allele can contribute to the pathogenesis of two different autoimmune diseases, T1D and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (37). The concept of the NOD genetic background providing a pan-autoimmune diathesis that is focused by specific modification is consistent with the observation that the B7-2 knockout placed on the NOD background develops an autoimmune demyelinating disease, and that HLA-DQ8 placed on the NOD background produces autoimmune myocarditis (38, 39). The development of biliary tract disease, Sjogren’s syndrome (40), thyroiditis (41), and autoimmune diabetes in a set of genetically similar NOD and NOD congenic strains serves as a model for human pedigrees containing multiple autoimmune diseases, including diabetes and primary biliary cirrhosis. Our results interpreted in the context of these other studies demonstrate that a genetically determined autoimmune pathway emerges from the NOD background genes, which can be changed to a completely different autoimmune phenotype by the introduction of different chromosomal intervals.
|
Footnotes |
|---|
1 L.S.W., J.A.T., P.A.L., and D.B.R. are supported by grants from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. The availability of NOD congenic mice through the Taconic Farms Emerging Models Program has been supported by grants from the Merck Genome Research Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. W.M.R. is supported by National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases 60714, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. 
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. William M. Ridgway, S725 Biomedical Science Tower, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. E-mail address: ridgway2{at}pitt.edu
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: NZB, New Zealand Black; ANA, antinuclear Ab; Idd, insulin-dependent diabetes; IP, immunoprecipitation; PBC, primary biliary cirrhosis; PDC, pyruvate dehydrogenase complex; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus; Sm, Smith; snRNP, small nuclear ribonucleoprotein; T1D, type 1 diabetes.
Received for publication March 2, 2004. Accepted for publication June 8, 2004.
|
References |
|---|
|
TopAbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResultsDiscussionReferences |
|---|
knockout NOD mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100:13447.This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  C. Meagher, Q. Tang, B. T. Fife, H. Bour-Jordan, J. Wu, C. Pardoux, M. Bi, K. Melli, and J. A. Bluestone Spontaneous Development of a Pancreatic Exocrine Disease in CD28-Deficient NOD Mice J. Immunol., June 15, 2008; 180(12): 7793 - 7803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
K. Hunter, D. Rainbow, V. Plagnol, J. A. Todd, L. B. Peterson, and L. S. Wicker Interactions between Idd5.1/Ctla4 and Other Type 1 Diabetes Genes J. Immunol., December 15, 2007; 179(12): 8341 - 8349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 K. Lindor Ursodeoxycholic Acid for the Treatment of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis N. Engl. J. Med., October 11, 2007; 357(15): 1524 - 1529. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 J. Irie, Y. Wu, K. Kachapati, R. S. Mittler, and W. M. Ridgway Modulating Protective and Pathogenic CD4+ Subsets via CD137 in Type 1 Diabetes Diabetes, January 1, 2007; 56(1): 186 - 196. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
S. Oertelt, Z.-X. Lian, C.-M. Cheng, Y.-H. Chuang, K. A. Padgett, X.-S. He, W. M. Ridgway, A. A. Ansari, R. L. Coppel, M. O. Li, et al. Anti-Mitochondrial Antibodies and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis in TGF-beta Receptor II Dominant-Negative Mice J. Immunol., August 1, 2006; 177(3): 1655 - 1660. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 J. Irie, Y. Wu, L. S. Wicker, D. Rainbow, M. A. Nalesnik, R. Hirsch, L. B. Peterson, P. S.C. Leung, C. Cheng, I. R. Mackay, et al. NOD.c3c4 congenic mice develop autoimmune biliary disease that serologically and pathogenetically models human primary biliary cirrhosis J. Exp. Med., May 15, 2006; 203(5): 1209 - 1219. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
J. Chen, Y.-G. Chen, P. C. Reifsnyder, W. H. Schott, C.-H. Lee, M. Osborne, F. Scheuplein, F. Haag, F. Koch-Nolte, D. V. Serreze, et al. Targeted Disruption of CD38 Accelerates Autoimmune Diabetes in NOD/Lt Mice by Enhancing Autoimmunity in an ADP-Ribosyltransferase 2-Dependent Fashion. J. Immunol., April 15, 2006; 176(8): 4590 - 4599. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
T. Shigihara, A. Shimada, Y. Oikawa, H. Yoneyama, Y. Kanazawa, Y. Okubo, K. Matsushima, E. Yamato, J.-i. Miyazaki, A. Kasuga, et al. CXCL10 DNA Vaccination Prevents Spontaneous Diabetes through Enhanced {beta} Cell Proliferation in NOD Mice J. Immunol., December 15, 2005; 175(12): 8401 - 8408. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. Faideau, E. Larger, F. Lepault, J. C. Carel, and C. Boitard Role of {beta}-Cells in Type 1 Diabetes Pathogenesis Diabetes, December 1, 2005; 54(suppl_2): S87 - S96. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
W. Jiang, M. S. Anderson, R. Bronson, D. Mathis, and C. Benoist Modifier loci condition autoimmunity provoked by Aire deficiency J. Exp. Med., September 19, 2005; 202(6): 805 - 815. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
