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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
University of Alberta researcherTroy Baldwin is a step closer to understanding why the body's immune cells, called T-cells, sometimes attack perfectly healthy cells causing autoimmune diseases like diabetes.
Baldwin, a researcher in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and graduate student Alex Suen looked at a specific molecule, known as BIM, which is vital in regulating T-cell death. He explained that when BIM was removed from auto-reactive T-cells, rather than being killed off and eliminated from the blood, the T-cells actually survived and were rendered inactive.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306131900.htm
Baldwin, a researcher in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and graduate student Alex Suen looked at a specific molecule, known as BIM, which is vital in regulating T-cell death. He explained that when BIM was removed from auto-reactive T-cells, rather than being killed off and eliminated from the blood, the T-cells actually survived and were rendered inactive.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120306131900.htm