PMID: 8993020Jan 15, 1997Paper

CD28/B7 costimulation regulates autoimmune diabetes induced with multiple low doses of streptozotocin

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
K G HeroldJ A Bluestone

Abstract

Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is believed to occur as a result of a T cell-mediated destruction of the islets of Langerhans. The factors that regulate the T cell responses, in particular the costimulatory signals required for the T cell activation, which result in islet cell destruction, are still unclear. CD28/B7 interactions have been shown to be important in the regulation of T cell immune responses. We, therefore, have examined the role of CD28/B7 interactions in a model of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in which T cell-dependent insulitis and hyperglycemia occur over a brief period, following multiple low doses of streptozotocin (multidose streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes mellitus). Expression of CD28 was necessary for diabetes because CD28 -/- C57BL/KsJ animals developed neither hyperglycemia nor insulitis, and did not express IFN-gamma mRNA following STZ, unlike CD28 +/- C57BL/KsJ mice. The expression of B7-1 (CD80) and B7-2 (CD86) molecules was closely regulated during development of the disease. Expression of both CD80 and CD86 increased on cells in pancreatic lymph nodes in STZ-treated C57BL/KsJ mice. Expression of only CD86 increased on islet cells in diabetic mice. In wild-type animals, treatment wit...Continue Reading

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