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SUBMITTER: Chatenoud L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3405831 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chatenoud Lucienne L Warncke Katharina K Ziegler Anette-G AG
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 20120801 8
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, hence the rationale for immunotherapy to halt disease progression. Based on knowledge gained from other autoimmune diseases and from transplantation, the first immunointervention trials used immunosuppressive drugs, e.g., cyclosporin, in patients with recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes. Although remarkable, the effect vanished following drug withdrawal. Efforts were then devoted to devise strategies to induce/restore self-tolerance and avoid chronic immu ...[more]