Immunology and Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

Special Issue

Immunology and Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes.

Including reviews by leading experts in the field. Edited by Anne Cooke and Pere Santamaria.

Submissions closed.

Manuscript due: December 15, 2012.

 

Table of Contents (early view articles available; click links in table)

Section

Topic

Authors

I. Pathogenesis

New tools - NOD ES cells

Anne Cooke and Nick Holmes


Pathogenic mechanisms in type 1 diabetes

Thomas Kay


Genetics and function (mouse versus human)

Clayton E. Mathews


Phosphatase polymorphisms and type 1 diabetes (human PTPN22, PTPN2)

Jane Buckner


Post-GWAS era in type 1 diabetes: use of GWAS data to understand diabetes at the molecular level

Alan Baxter


Novel biomarkers in T1D

Yulan Jinand, Jin-Xiong She


New findings on autoantigens

Maki Nakayama


Metabolomics and islet autoimmunity

Matej Oresic

II. Prevention

Gut microbiota and type 1 diabetes

Outi Vaarala


Interaction of environmental factors and islet autoimmunity, viral infections

Heikki Hyƶty


Infection-helminths and type 1 diabetes

Paola Zaccone

III. Re-establishing tolerance

Type 1 diabetes therapy beyond T cell targeting: monocytes, B cells, and innate lymphocytes

Susan Wong


Dendritic and B cell-based approaches (i.e. targeting antigens to tolerogenic Dcs)

Karsten Kretschmer


ECDI-fixed antigen-pulsed PBMCs (and other tolerance approaches in NOD mice and T1D and comparison/contrast to use of Ag-coupled cells and Ag-nanoparticles)

Stephen D. Miller


New efforts to bring antigen-specific therapies to the clinic (new NovoNordisk T1D R&D center)

Matthias von Herrath and Ken Coppieters


Antigen and DNA vaccination in type 1 diabetes

Len Harrison


IL1Ra antagonists and other cytokine blockade strategies

Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen


pMHC-coated nanoparticles

Pere Santamaria


Microparticle-based delivery of antisense or siRNA to local DCs

Massimo Trucco

IV. Where are we with clinical trials?

Immune-directed type 1 diabetes therapy in the clinic - The Immune Tolerance Network

Gerald T. Nepom and Mario Ehlers


Type 1 diabetes therapy in clinical testing: European trials with aCD3

Lucienne Chatenoud and Herman Waldmann

V. Beta-cell replacement

Islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes

AM James Shapiro


Neogenesis

Susan Bonner-Weir, et al.