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372693

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-6-29
pubmed:abstractText
The discovery of islet-cell antibodies (ICA) has served to reinforce the theory that the pathogenesis of diabetes is immunologic. These antibodies have been found in the serum of diabetics who also had other autoimmune diseases and in that of most insulin dependent diabetics. ICA were detected by an indirect immunofluorescent technique using human pancreas tissue as a substrate. In this study two human islet cell adenomas were employed; their cell composition was analyzed by means of this technique with antihormone antibodies marked with fluorescein. Serum from 74 diabetic patients and 45 normal controls were studied using this substrate. Twenty-three of the 56 insulin-dependent diabetics were in the first clinical stage of the disease; 18 of them (78%) were positive for ICA. The other 33 insulin-dependent diabetics had the disease for over 3 years; six of these (36%) were positive. Anticellular antibodies were detected also in two of the 18 patients who were not insulin-dependent (5%). There was only one case of positivity among the controls (2%). These figures are similar to those of previous studies. It has been shown that the incidence of islet-cell antibodies drops rapidly after the fifth week of the disease; it depends primarily on the stage of development and has little to do with the age of the patient at the onset of the disease. Knowledge about these antibodies makes it easier to classify diabetics and to arrive at a prognosis regarding possible later insulin-dependence. These antibodies may be a consequence or even the cause of the destruction of the pancreatic islets provoked by a viral infection and perhaps determined by a predisposing genetic factor.
pubmed:language
spa
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0025-7753
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
72
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
[Determinación of islet-cell antibodies in different groups of diabetics (author's transl)].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract