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I Crosby

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PubMed1998

TNFB gene polymorphism in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: association with HLA-DR alleles.

A polymorphism of the TNF-beta gene can be detected by restriction digestion of a PCR product with NcoI. In this study we look at the risk associated with this polymorphism in a study of 69 insulin-dependent diabetes patients and 119 healthy controls. The risk was further characterized by comparison to the HLA type of the individual, since the TNF polymorphism is in linkage disequilibrium with HLA genes.

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PubMed1996

Proliferative lymphocyte responses to virus antigens homologous to GAD65 in IDDM.

Virus infection has been proposed as an initiating factor in the aetiology of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). We have examined lymphocyte proliferation to virus proteins which demonstrate sequence similarity to the beta-cell autoantigen glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD)65. The magnitude and frequency of response to coxsackie B viruses and adenovirus in a T-cell proliferation assay was significantly higher in a group of recently diagnosed IDDM subjects than in non-diabetic control subjects. The frequency of positive response to the coxsackie B viruses was also significantly higher in IDDM subjects expressing the DRB 1*04 major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotype than the DRB 1*03 haplotype. There was no evidence that non-aspartate residue at position 57 of DQB 1 genes influenced virus responses in the IDDM group. The coxsackie homology was in amino acids 258-266 and the adenovirus homology was in amino acids 509-524 of GAD65. Both these regions are suspected to be T-cell epitopes in IDDM. These results indicate a disease and MHC class II association between coxsackie B virus infection and IDDM and an association between adenovirus infection and IDDM.

Adenoviridae↗
PubMed1992

Human T cells expressing V beta 8 do not predominantly recognize DR2 alloantigen.

A panel of seven monoclonal antibodies recognizing human T-cell antigen receptor (TcR) V alpha or V beta subsets has been used to measure TcR gene expression in peripheral blood lymphocytes and mixed lymphocyte culture responses (MLR) between DR2- and DR2+ (DRw15+) donors. There were no significant differences between DR2- and DR2+ donors in per cent T cells in fresh peripheral blood labelled with any of these antibodies, which included an antibody recognizing V beta 8. This indicates strongly that increased negative selection of V beta 8+ T cells does not occur in DR2+ compared with DR2- individuals. In MLR between DR2- and DR2+ donors the only significant change compared with fresh peripheral lymphocytes was that T cells expressing V beta 5.1 were decreased in DR2- lymphocyte populations responding to DR2 alloantigen. No changes in levels of V beta 8+ T cells were detected in MLR between DR2- and DR2+ donors. This suggests that V beta 8+ T cells are not predominantly reactive against DR2 (DRw15). The data support the concept that alloreactivity against a single class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) mismatch is mediated by T cells expressing a range of different TcR V beta molecules.

Antibodies, Monoclonal↗
PubMed1977

Fibreoptic studies of the aortic valve in dogs.

The study describes a method for visualisation of the aortic valve in the intact animal using a non-obstructive endoscopic system. Clearing of blood from the field of vision is achieved by the rapid injection of saline during a period of asystole.

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