More than 10 viruses have been reported to be associated with the development of type 1
diabetes‐like symptoms in animals, with the best evidence coming from studies on the D …

Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus results from the progressive loss of pancreatic
beta cells. Environmental factors are believed to play an important part in the development …

Type 1 diabetes results from the progressive destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic
beta cells. Although the etiology of type 1 diabetes is believed to have a major genetic …

The M variant of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMC) infects pancreatic beta cells and causes
the development of a diabetic syndrome in susceptible strains of mice. By examining four F1 …

Beta cells were isolated from strains of mice that were susceptible and resistant to
encephalomyocarditis (EMC) viral-induced diabetes mellitus. Beta cells from susceptible …

The best evidence that viruses have a causative role in the pathogenesis of insulin-
dependent diabetes mellitus comes from experiments in mice infected with …

A possible contribution of the immune system to the pathogenesis of virus-induced diabetes
mellitus was investigated using the D-variant of encephalomyocarditis (EMC-D) virus …

Encephalomyocarditis (EMC) virus induction of diabetes mellitus in mice has proven to bean
excellent experimental model for the pathogenesis of viral disease. In SJL and DBA/2 mice …

Levels of insulin mRNA in pancreata from SJL/J male mice susceptible to
encephalomyocarditis (EMC)-D virus-induced diabetes started to decrease rapidly 24 h after …

Viruses are believed to contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune type 1A diabetes in
humans. This pathogenic process can be modeled in the BBDR rat, which develops …