Analysis of the Peripheral T-Cell Receptor VP Repertoire in Newly Diagnosed Patients with Type I Diabetes
作者:
WongSusan,
WenLi,
HibberdMartin,
MillwardAnn,
DemaineAndrew,
期刊:
Autoimmunity
(Taylor Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 1
页码: 77-83
ISSN:0891-6934
年代: 1994
DOI:10.3109/08916939409014682
出版商: Taylor&Francis
关键词: T-cell receptor Vp gene repertoire;polymerase chain reaction;flow cytometry;type I diabetes;autoimmune disease;T-cell tolerance
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease characterised by a marked activation of peripheral T cells around the time of clinical diagnosis. Studies of T-cell antigen receptor Vp (TCRBV) gene usage in type I diabetes have been conflicting. Usng a semi-quantitative polymerase chain reaction technique and flow cytometry we have investigated the TCRBV gene usage of 13 newly diagnosed patients with type I diabetes and 11 normal healthy controls. No preferential TCRBV gene usage was found between patients and controls even after matching for HLA-DR3 and/or -DR4. In addition, no significant differences in TCRBV gene usage were found between sequential samples taken over a period of up to 7 months following diagnosis. These results suggest that the TCR repertoire of these patients is heterogeneous and it is unlikely that a single‘pathogenic’T-cell clone is dominant at the clinical onset of the disease.
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