The presence of circulating autoantibody to islet cell cytoplasm is considered to be an important marker of Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. In the present study using islet cell cytoplasmic antibody positive patient sera as the first antibody, we studied the intracellular distribution
Cell-mediated cytotoxic islet cell surface antibodies to human pancreatic beta cells
β Scribed by T. Maruyama; I. Takei; I. Matsuba; A. Tsuruoka; M. Taniyama; Y. Ikeda; K. Kataoka; M. Abe; S. Matsuki
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 381 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-186X
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β¦ Synopsis
Sera containing islet cell surface antibodies show a complement-dependent cytotoxic reaction against islet cells, but it has not yet been clarified whether islet cell surface antibodies exhibit cell-mediated cytotoxicity to these cells. By 51Cr release assay we investigated whether islet cell surface antibodies showed a cytotoxic reaction to human pancreatic B cells (JHPI-1 clone) in the presence of normal human lymphocytes. The sera from 14 islet cell surface antibody-positive, 16 islet cell surface antibody-negative Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients and 18 islet cell surface antibody-negative healthy subjects were studied. Four sera containing islet cell surface antibodies showed specific cytotoxicity above the mean +3SD value of healthy subjects, and the mean specific cytotoxicity of islet cell surface antibody-positive sera differed significantly from that of both islet cell surface antibody-negative groups. These results suggest that this cell-mediated cytotoxic mechanism may play an important role in the pathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes.
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