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- Title
New members of the interleukin-12 family of cytokines: IL-23 and IL-27 modulate autoimmune diabetes.
- Authors
Mensah-Brown, E P K; Shahin, A; Al-Shamsi, M; Lukic, M L
- Abstract
Multiple low doses of streptozotocin (5 x 40 mg/kg) given to susceptible male C57BL6 mice induced delayed and sustained hyperglycemia accompanied by body weight loss, mononuclear cell infiltration in the islet, and apoptosis of beta cells. Shorter regimes (4 x 40 mg/kg) did not have such effect. Administration of IL-23 at a dose of 400 ng/mL for 10 consecutive days concomitantly with this subdiabetogenic regimen of STZ, however, induced significant hyperglycemia, weight loss, and mononuclear cellular infiltration. The same regimen of IL-27 induced milder effect on glycemia and no weight loss inspite of a massive peri-islet and intra-islet infiltration of mononuclear cells. The molecular mechanisms underlying the actions of these cytokines on diabetogenesis is under study.
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006, Vol 1079, p157
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1196/annals.1375.024