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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
22
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-12-26
pubmed:abstractText
Nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice spontaneously develop an autoimmune form of diabetes associated with insulitis. A number of immunomodulatory therapies have been investigated as a treatment for the disease process. Oral administration of the autoantigens myelin basic protein and collagen type II suppresses experimental models of encephalomyelitis and arthritis. We have now found that oral administration of insulin delays the onset and reduces the incidence of diabetes in NOD mice over a 1-year period in animals administered 1 mg of porcine insulin orally twice a week for 5 weeks and then weekly until 1 year of age. As expected, orally administered insulin had no metabolic effect on blood glucose levels. The severity of lymphocytic infiltration of pancreatic islets was also reduced by oral administration of insulin. Furthermore, splenic T cells from animals orally treated with insulin adoptively transfer protection against diabetes, demonstrating that oral insulin administration generates active cellular mechanisms that suppress disease. These results show that oral insulin affects diabetes and the pancreatic cellular inflammatory process in the NOD mouse and raise the possibility that oral administration of insulin or other pancreatic autoantigens may provide a new approach for the treatment of autoimmune diabetes.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
88
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
10252-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Suppression of diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice by oral administration of porcine insulin.
pubmed:affiliation
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't