Saturday, March 24, 2012

Beta cell stress could trigger the development of type 1 diabetes

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News
In type 1 diabetes (T1D), pancreatic beta cells die from a misguided autoimmune attack, but how and why that happens is still unclear. Now, scientists have found that a specific type of cellular stress takes place in pancreatic beta cells before the onset of T1D, and that this stress response in the beta cell may in fact help ignite the autoimmune attack.
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