This important text will be the first devoted to a detailed analysis of immunotherapy as it
applies to Type I diabetes and the pathogenesis and therapy of other specific autoimmune …

In the past decade the tools of genetics and immunology have begun to impact in a dramatic
manner on our understanding of a series of human immune disorders. A disease such as …

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. It was thus logical to attempt preventing or
stopping the progression of the disease by immunotherapy. Following the strategies used in …

There is now convincing evidence that insulin-dependent (Type 1) diabetes mellitus is an
immunological disease. This is derived from observations of a genetically determined …

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is a T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease [1, 2]. It is thus
logical to modulate the immune system to stop the progression of the disease as it is widely …

Immunotherapy has the potential to modify or re-balance the immune system and hence
useful in the management of autoimmune conditions. This article aims to review clinically …

Autoimmune diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease caused by the loss or selective
destruction of the insulin-producing cells, called pancreatic beta cells. Damage to beta cells …

Type 1 diabetes is a prototypic, organ-specific autoimmune disease. Diverse antigen-
specific immunotherapy using insulin or glutamic acid decarboxylase peptides and other …

Type 1 diabetes is regarded as an autoimmune disease and, in accordance with this, trials
using immune suppression and general or specific immune modifications have been carried …

Immunology of insulin-dependent diabetes Page 264 CHAPTER 9 Immunology of Insulin-Dependent
Diabetes DEBORAH DONIACH Department of Immunology The Middlesex Hospital Medical …