Researchers say that causes of autoimmune (type1) diabetes may be a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental factors. A study published on March 27th in iPLOS Pathogens/i gets at the mechanisms by which rotavirus infection contributes to autoimmune diabetes in a mouse model of the disease. NOD (for non-obese diabetic) mice are prone to develop diabetes, and infection with rotavirus accelerates onset of the disease. Barbara Coulson and colleagues, ...
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