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Environmental factors that act at the intestinal level such as diet, drugs, and microflora have a high impact on the pathogenesis of autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), but it is still unclear how the gut milieu affects autoimmunity outside the intestine. Here we show that peripheral FoxP3+ Treg cell differentiation, a mechanism that takes place in the gut and is crucial to maintain systemic immune tolerance, is impaired in T1D patients. These results provide the first evidence that gut mucosa alteration could predispose to autoimmune T1D by affecting systemic immune regulation.
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Badami, E., Sorini, C., Coccia, M. et al. Defective FoxP3+ Treg cell differentiation in the gut of Type 1 Diabetic patients. Nat Prec (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.4417.1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.4417.1